Report: Youth Coach Charged With Murder, Sexual Assault of Boy is Illegal Alien
The police suspect the illegal alien from El Salvador sexually assaulted numerous other teenage boys.
Youth soccer coach Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino faces murder charges with special circumstances in the death of Oscar Omar Hernandez, 13, of Los Angeles, on March 28.
The district attorney included “a special circumstance allegation of murder during the commission or attempted commission of lewd acts with a child, making him eligible for the death penalty.”
Law enforcement found Hernandez’s body in Oxnard, CA, on April 2.
Oxnard is located around 70 miles north of Los Angeles.
Hernandez’s parents reported him missing on March 30 when he did not come from Garcia Aquino’s home:
The teen, who lived in Sun Valley, had taken a train to the Antelope Valley the day before he was reported missing. When the boy’s brother tried to phone him later that day, the coach answered the boy’s cellphone and said the boy was busy and could not talk.
According to the family and investigators, Daniel Hernandez, the boy’s father, later called the coach and insisted he drop the teen off near the family’s home.
After the boy’s disappearance, investigators used data from cellular devices, cellphone towers, and other tracking systems and determined that the suspect visited the Oxnard area near McGrath State Beach and the Santa Clara River, according to law enforcement sources, who were not authorized to discuss the probe.
“We had that person at our home,” Hernandez’s sister Alejandra told KTLA through a translator via The Los Angeles Times. “He even helped us look for Oscar.”
I’m glad RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar wrote about this story because we haven’t heard anything about it.
Also because The Los Angeles Times buried an important fact: “Multiple law enforcement sources who said they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case said that Garcia Aquino was an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador.”
As Van Laar said…the story gets worse because Garcia Aquino allegedly sexually assaulted other teenagers. Let’s see if I can keep this straight. More from The Los Angeles Times:
Garcia Aquino was also the subject of an LAPD investigation into sexual assault of a minor in 2022 but was never charged because at that point the alleged victim declined to testify against him, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
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At Monday’s press conference, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said he was seeking additional victims in the child sexual abuse case.
Luna said that case stemmed from accusations that Garcia Aquino “befriended a Sylmar family who allowed their juvenile son to stay with him at his residence in Palmdale. The family subsequently filed a criminal report with the Palmdale Sheriff station alleging sexual abuse of their child.” The victim was a 16-year-old boy, Luna said.
During the investigation, detectives learned that there was another unrelated child sexual abuse case being handled by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Foothill division involving Garcia Aquino, Luna said. The sheriff encouraged people to come forward and said immigration status is not an issue.
Last week, law enforcement brought in Garcia Aquino for alleged sexual assault accusations in 2024.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman said the office only recently filed charges in the 2024 case because investigations take time.
Hochmann’s office charged Garcia Aquino “with assault with intent to commit rape in connection with that Feb. 22, 2024 incident.”
The office added “one felony count each of assault with the intent to commit a sexual offense and lewd act upon a child 14 or 15 years old” to the list of charges against Garcia Aquino.
Jasmin Martinez, a former neigbor of Garcia Aquino, told NBC Los Angeles that he often had young boys at his house to play soccer.
Martinez then said “she felt he often made up excuses to visit her and her four children.”
Oh my goodness: “Most of the time, he was always trying to, like, be around children.”
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“Garcia Aquino was an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador.”
But I bet he really knew his soccer.
In this nation of jock-sniffers, that is the primary reason he was hired. I’m betting no background check.
Depends on where you are. In our small town my girlfriend was on the school board and needed someone to mow the lawn. I volunteered but when they wanted a full background check I said nope. This was to mow the grounds on Saturday or Sunday when school was out. I told them I had a CDL with HazMat, a TWIC card, a passport, a CCW and had a Top Secret in the Military. I had enough background checks to mow a friggin lawn
Milquetoast will be here telling that this is the best and brightest of El Salvador, and just because he has tattoos doesn’t mean he’s part of MS13 or Tren De Aquaman, and how he has the right to due process, as soon as he takes his dick out of the young boy’s anus.
There is no allegation that he is a gang member, nor any indication that he has any tattoos. And of course he has the right to due process, just like everyone else. Under no circumstances whatsoever can any criminal penalty ever be imposed on him without due process, no matter what he’s alleged to have done. As you will appreciate should anyone ever make such allegations against you.
Irrelevant and disingenuous. Of course he will get due process now that the horrible damage has been done and he has been caught. The tragedy of this is that there were plenty of clues present that he posed a substantial risk, but cowards who value woke theory over the safety of the public have successfully intimidated law enforcement in certain areas to abandon proactive measures to satisfy their obsessive concerns for protecting the aggressors. There is a balance, and you are way off the beam.
Yep, you called that one right!
While we’re still early in his 2nd term, it’s undeniable that the pace of deportations thus far has been…underwhelming. As of 3/15, they had only arrested just over 32K illegals, most of which had not yet been deported as of that date. Presuming that pace continued (additional deportation numbers haven’t been released since then), at best, they’ve removed no more than 35K illegal aliens, and that may be charitable. If we round up and call it 20K/mo, it would ‘only’ take 63-years to deport the illegals who entered during Biden’s presidency. Even if they ramped that up to 20K-week, it would still take 14-years to deport Biden’s illegals.
Could have more if someone wasn’t leaking raid details. Also add that we have activist judges that are gladly hamstringing the process when ever they can. Even if it’s taking time, every criminal deported is probably at least one life saved from crime.
Not including those who self-deport, but your point is still valid.
FWIW, self-deportation is why I rounded up to 35K. DHS published information that upwards of 5K illegals self-deported in March. While that sounds like a lot, it’s unfortunately only a drop in the proverbial bucket.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/thousands-leave-country-voluntarily-amid-trump-self-deport-push-dhs-says
They have to get to 100K deportations every month if they want to just get a third of the Biden illegals out of the country.
It appears the strategy is to focus on the gang members and illegals already ordered to leave for now. Let the leftist use up their lawfare on slam dunk wins for the administration to get ahead of the public support needed later. Once the USSC rules that the President not district judges has the power to deport illegal aliens that helps with public opinion to win in ’26 and ’28 so that the border is not promptly reopened.
The next step will probably be a real crackdown on all types of public benefits to illegals including clawing back money from states who misuse federal funds to support illegals.
Going after employers who hire illegals combined with cutting off the government gravy train will force large numbers to leave.
The last step is going after the remaining illegals. The left and their media will go crazy with their separating families open border arguments, but the energy will be mostly spent by then.
I am all for taking the illegitimate gains of companies that hire illegals. I don’t care if they knew it or not, or whether the illegal uses false identification.
Lose your entire business, total confiscation of assets, and criminally charge any employee that knew illegals worked there.
You will see plenty of people reporting illegals so they aren’t complicit in criminal activity, or lose their job when the chicken plant shutters due to hiring illegals.
Or, considering Aunt Jemima Crockett, importing slaves because “We Doan Picks No Moe Cottin!”
Borderline pedophiles make good teachers, psychiatrist Guggenbuhl-Craig says, because they’re able to maintain an interest in what the kid is saying where a normal adult tunes out.
So you expect not so borderine there too. It has nothing to do with illegal alienhood.
I always had to pass a background screening to coach my daughters’ travel teams; guess the standards are different in CA
FBI background check and finger printing for 4-H volunteers. Never allowed to be alone with a student.
No such rules when I was a kid in the Boy Scouts more than 60 years ago. Our culture has fallen.
Then again, back then, you probably already knew all the neighbors who were running those things.
This is true. And you also knew that the neighbors had trees and knew how to tie elaborate knots, too.
But..but… the “rate” of murders of US citizens is down from the flood of illegal aliens… so they say. We can take heart in that as more Americans are murdered, the proportion is less for the overall population. Please forget that if there were no illegals, more Americans would be alive. (Cost of omelets you know)
El Salvador, you say? I believe there’s a prison ready for him.
Aliens must register with US government after they have been in USA for 30 days. Also, the alien must have evidence of their registration on their person at all times.
https://www.uscis.gov/alienregistration
It is a crime to fail to comply with this rule.
Milquetoast and Da Judges will say differently.
If only Bondi would grow a pair ( metaphorically speaking, of course) and make use of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(B)(iv)!
No one involved in this case, or in most such cases, has violated that section.
“…eligible for the death penalty.”
Translation: three hots and a cot for 30 years (see Mumia Abu-Jamal) on the taxpayer dime, and a shot at having a weekly segment on taxpayer-funded NPR. Let’s not forget the GiveSendGo / GoFundMe collections for his lawyers and canteen account.
Paraphrase by Paula:
We used to say, “Another day another dollar.”
Now we say, “Another day another 10 or 15 murders and rapes by illegals.”
Exactly
“The Supreme Court however, said the Administration must give reasonable notice for gang members to challenge their deportations in court.”
Freaking insane, insane
Fine, let’s see you arrested and deported without any neutral party having examined the evidence against you. We can say you’re a gang member and terrorist who’s here illegally; according to you it doesn’t matter whether that’s true.
If they’re illegals there’s no need for some drawn out process.
And they don’t need to be gang members or terrorists.
They are criminals for having crossed the border illegally..
The case closes before it has to open.
They’re alleged to be illegal. According to you that’s enough, so let’s do it to you. Just seize you and put you on a plane, and claim you were here illegally. Isn’t that what they did in “Operation Wetback”?
Without a neutral party to examine the evidence, how can you expect it not to happen to you? What makes you different from those swept up in this?
Any judge that prevents deportation should have to host him while he is here. Let him prey upon the judge’s family.
lefty: he’s american until proven otherwise and not earlier than 2045
Tilting At Windmills tell us the same thing daily.
According to the story, Garcia Aquino was employed by the Hurricane Valley Boy’s Soccer Club, which … does not appear to exist. The only online reference I’ve been able to find outside of articles about this case is a placeholder sort of page in something called the ‘corporate complicity index.’ The cci page says it’s in Sylmar, but the logo included is for the Hurricanes Soccer Club in Valley Center, San Diego. It’s possible they’re affiliated somehow, who knows.
Whether they have a business license in LA County I don’t know, since the county doesn’t seem to have a search function for that.
Most soccer clubs are non-profit organizations, not businesses. Often, they’re established by just a few people. I tried finding out more about this club, but as you said, there isn’t much online about it. Its name is not “Hurricane” but is “Huracan Valley Soccer Club”. It does have a Facebook page, but it is not very active. https://www.facebook.com/Valleysoccerschool
Why anyone would allow their child to “sleep over” at someones house without due diligence is a mystery to me. Especially someone without children of their own. 70miles away!