Several disturbing cases of child sexual abuse by illegal alien sexual predators, including impregnating girls as young as 12 years old, have come to light in recent weeks.
In South Carolina, local authorities recently arrested Luis Armando Argueta Montejo, a 43-year-old from Mexico, for incest and three counts of criminal sexual conduct with a child.
Based on evidence from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, Montejo had sexual intercourse with the victim, who is between the ages of 11 and 14.
Officers launched an investigation after a young girl was found giving birth in the parking lot of a local hospital. Investigators are still trying to determine who is the father of the child.
Montejo was arrested on April 16 by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office in Walhalla, South Carolina, near the Georgia state line. The following day U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged an arrest detainer for the alleged child abuser.
Montejo is accused of sexually abusing the minor from 2022 to 2025, but officials have not said whether he is the father of the baby, according to FOX Carolina.
Local authorities got involved on April 11, when a minor was discovered in labor in the parking lot of the Oconee County Memorial Hospital. Both the minor and an adult woman she was with were transported due to a medical call, the OCSO shared in a news release.
The sheriff’s office contacted the Department of Social Services and turned the investigation over to the Violent Crimes Unit of the Criminal Investigations Bureau. Based upon evidence, investigators learned that Montejo had repeated sexual contact with the girl.
Montejo told ICE he first entered the country in 2006, and he has no previous criminal history in the United States, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.
Montejo was being held at the Oconee County Detention Center on an $80,000 surety bond. ICE lodged a detainer on Montejo to ensure that he is transferred to their custody without being released on bond or after he faces a pending trial and sentencing.
“This sicko should NEVER have been in our country to prey on children in the first place,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “Thankfully, South Carolina cooperates with ICE law enforcement. This is why we need cooperation from state and local partners, so together we can keep criminals off our streets and make America safe again.”
In another disturbing child sex abuse case out of Louisiana, illegal immigrant Jose Lopez-Montoya pleaded guilty to incest after a 12-year-old girl in his care had his child. He faces decades in prison and hard labor, KPLC 7 News reported.
Lopez-Montoya was first arrested in July 2024 and charged with first-degree rape after an underage juvenile gave birth at a local hospital.
Described as a “Lake Charles man” by KPLC 7 News, Lopez-Montoya, now 41, pleaded guilty this week to aggravated crimes against nature by incest and faces 25 to 99 years in prison. His sentencing is set for April 28.
At the time of his arrest, KPLC News buried details of his immigration status, noting he had an immigration detainer near the end of the story. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office brought charges against Lopez-Montoya after the 12-year-old girl gave birth to a child in July 2024.
The victim said that Lopez-Montoya was her guardian and had sex with her several times over two years, investigators said. Lopez-Montoya admitted to sexually abusing the girl and said the baby should be his.
“He was responsible for her well-being and her mom and dad were not around, so this is a really disappointing situation,” Sheriff Stitch Guillory said at the time of his arrest. “He’s a pretty sick individual.”
Local reports or authorities never detailed how the young girl ended up in Lopez-Montoya’s care, where her parents were, or if she was an unaccompanied minor who came to the United States during the Biden administration’s open borders.
Guillory said “there is some concern” over the situation following Lopez-Montoya’s arrest. He told KPLC that investigators needed to look into it further, adding, “It’s hard to believe that this little girl who’s under the age 13 went a nine-month term pregnancy and nobody noticed and nobody said anything.”
Elsewhere, illegal alien Victor Ubaldo Torres-Lopez was charged with child sexual abuse and incest last month in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. He is also accused of fathering a child with his victim.
KOTV News On 6 reported that the victim contacted police on March 25, saying Torres-Lopez had strangled her during an argument and then he left.
According to the arrest report, the victim told police he had been sexually abusing her and was the father of her 6-month-old child. She said the most recent encounter was two days prior, and he had used a condom and given her a morning after pill.
Police interviewed Torres-Lopez and he allegedly told them the girl had come onto him when she was 13 years old when they lived in another state, before moving to Tulsa.
“He said he knew it was wrong, but couldn’t control himself or say no and they’d been having intercourse every 2-3 days,” according to News On 6.
According to booking information, he is in the country illegally and has an ICE hold on him. Police also took DNA to see whether Torres-Lopez is the father of the baby.
In Fulton County, Georgia, Culberto Duran-Gutierrez was arrested for rape, child molestation, and sexual battery of a minor on April 17 by the Sandy Springs Police Department. He has an immigration detainer hold and remains in the Fulton County Jail, according to booking information.
Last month, Honduran national Marvin Alfredo Chavez Salgado, 26, was arrested for false imprisonment and lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under 12 in Broward County, Florida. He has an immigration detainer hold and remains in Paul Rein Detention Facility based on jail records.
Meanwhile, DHS also continues its crusade to round up sexual predators and other criminal illegal aliens, with the latest batch of arrests detailed here and here.
“Our law enforcement officers are on the frontlines arresting pedophiles, rapists, and drug traffickers,” Bis said. “As we observe National Crime Victims Week, DHS law enforcement is fighting for justice for victims of illegal alien crime and preventing more American citizens from being victimized by illegal aliens who have no right to be in our country in the first place.”
