here's our rapey child molester:
WEYMOUTH - Everybody wanted Abdulrhman A. Abduljalil to face justice, but he walked free anyhow.
The 31-year-old Saudi national appears to have slipped through a gap in agency authority that allowed him to escape prosecution for child rape and earn a free ticket home despite being under indictment. Officials at both the Norfolk County district attorney's office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement refused to take responsibility for his release or to assign blame, saying only that their own agency's hands were tied.
The loophole through which Abduljalil eventually escaped began to open last summer in Quincy District Court, where Judge Mark Coven set bail at $35,000 cash despite prosecutors' request that it be set at $100,000. Abduljalil posted bail within two weeks and Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone later declined to increase it, allowing him to live with a family in New Hampshire while awaiting his next court date.
While out on bail, Abduljalil was picked up by immigration enforcement agents and charged with violating the terms of his entry into the country, Shawn Neudauer, an ICE spokesman, said. In November, an immigration judge ordered ICE to return Abduljalil to Saudi Arabia.
Norfolk County prosecutors were told that Abduljalil was in ICE custody and in early January asked Norfolk Superior Court to issue a habeas corpus – essentially an order to deliver someone in custody – to ICE's Boston field office instructing the agency to bring Abduljalil to court for a pretrial conference on Jan. 25. Despite the order, Abduljalil was deported Jan. 24.
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How a Saudi college student escaped prosecution on child rape charges - News - The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA - Quincy, MA
WEYMOUTH - Everybody wanted Abdulrhman A. Abduljalil to face justice, but he walked free anyhow.
The 31-year-old Saudi national appears to have slipped through a gap in agency authority that allowed him to escape prosecution for child rape and earn a free ticket home despite being under indictment. Officials at both the Norfolk County district attorney's office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement refused to take responsibility for his release or to assign blame, saying only that their own agency's hands were tied.
The loophole through which Abduljalil eventually escaped began to open last summer in Quincy District Court, where Judge Mark Coven set bail at $35,000 cash despite prosecutors' request that it be set at $100,000. Abduljalil posted bail within two weeks and Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone later declined to increase it, allowing him to live with a family in New Hampshire while awaiting his next court date.
While out on bail, Abduljalil was picked up by immigration enforcement agents and charged with violating the terms of his entry into the country, Shawn Neudauer, an ICE spokesman, said. In November, an immigration judge ordered ICE to return Abduljalil to Saudi Arabia.
Norfolk County prosecutors were told that Abduljalil was in ICE custody and in early January asked Norfolk Superior Court to issue a habeas corpus – essentially an order to deliver someone in custody – to ICE's Boston field office instructing the agency to bring Abduljalil to court for a pretrial conference on Jan. 25. Despite the order, Abduljalil was deported Jan. 24.
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How a Saudi college student escaped prosecution on child rape charges - News - The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA - Quincy, MA
