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The Department of Homeland Security is asking Martin County Sheriff's officials to not release from jail an illegal immigrant who is charged with sexual battery on a 12-year-old girl.
20-year-old Henry Perez-Roblero was arrested last week and accused of having a sexual relationship with a girl who he knew through her family.
Investigators believe it had been happening since the girl was 10 and the victim's mother caught them in the act.
DHS says Perez-Roblero, a Guatemalan national, entered the U.S. illegally in Arizona as an unaccompanied minor in 2021 and was released by the Biden administration. An Immigration Judge issued him a final order of removal in January of last year.