Arizona releases illegal alien child sex predator on bail
An Arizona judge ordered the release of a child sex predator who remains in this country illegally, and state authorities have yet to hand him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Cristian Leonardo Caal Mucu, a 23-year-old Guatemalan native, is accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl from Kansas and transporting her to Chandler, Arizona. Court records said the girl “made plans with the suspect to leave with him in the middle of the night without her parents' knowledge.” After being found by police at an Extended Stay America hotel in Chandler, she told investigators that she had been in a sexual relationship with Caal Mucu.
Caal Mucu also admitted to repeatedly having sex with the teen, but denied charges of kidnapping.
“I’m not kidnapping anybody, and I knew what I was doing was a felony, and I discussed it with her, and I understand it’s a felony, and I would like to be responsible if she ends up pregnant,” he told the court, according to Breitbart.
Prosecutors explained to the court that Caal Mucu had several IDs and was a flight risk. Nevertheless, the judge set bail at $50,000, money that Caal Mucu said he had. The child sex predator was fitted with an ankle monitor and released. Although Arizona is not a sanctuary state, there are no reports of a handover to ICE, and Caal Mucu does not appear in ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System.
Caal Mucu is the latest illegal migrant pedophile to avoid deportation.
In some states, illegal alien pedophiles are protected
Last year, every California Democrat lawmaker voted against AB 2641, a bill that would have removed state sanctuary protections from illegal alien sex offenders.
Under California’s current sanctuary state law, law enforcement is prohibited from fully cooperating with immigration authorities. A California police officer cannot, for example, ask a person’s immigration status or detain an illegal immigrant at the request of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. If an illegal alien has been jailed or incarcerated for a crime, California law enforcement officials are forbidden from providing ICE authorities with the migrant’s release date.
AB 2641 would have stripped such protections from any illegal immigrant who is convicted of sexual abuse or crimes against minors. California Assemblyman Bill Essayli introduced the legislation after learning that an illegal Colombian pedophile was set free in California last year instead of being turned over to ICE.
The 23-year-old Colombian man entered the United States illegally in 2021 through California. He traveled upstate to San Bernardino, where he was convicted of having sexual intercourse with a child more than three years younger and “oral copulation of a person under 18.” He was sentenced to four years in prison, but was released after 15 months by San Bernardino County.
When ICE officers asked prison authorities for the pedophile’s release date, the prison refused to provide it because he is an illegal alien. In April 2024, ICE officials caught up with the Colombian in Boston and apprehended him.
“On an unknown date, the noncitizen sex offender from California was released from state custody,” said ICE in a press release after the apprehension. “Regarding this matter, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office was hampered in its ability to assist in the case, due to California state law limiting local law enforcement cooperation with ICE."
