LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Police have arrested a mother on charges she harbored a man who impregnated her 14-year-old daughter.

Authorities say 42-year-old Rosa Elena Benavides-Arellano allowed Lucio Gomez-Gonzalez to stay at her home for two weeks and permitted him to have sex with her daughter.

Police charged Gomez-Gonzalez, whose age is unknown, with statutory rape on Thursday. The mother was charged the previous day with being a party to statutory rape.

According to arrest warrants, both suspects are Mexicans in the country illegally.



This is the way my town has changed in the last 10 years from a nice suburban "bedroom community" to a place where English is seldom heard at the local stores, where Mexican flags fly at car dealers, and gang graffiti is as abundant as the vans carrying ladders so high they look top heavy. In my subdivision where I have owned my home since 1993, we are 1 of only 4 non-Mexican homes left. All the other houses have 3 to 5 mexican families living in them. We have thought about moving, but I hate the thought of giving up and running away.