Biden awards highest civilian honor to 'merchant of death' who oversaw nearly 4 million abortions



President Joe Biden, whom Cardinal Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Washington deemed a "cafeteria Catholic" on Easter Sunday, has awarded the nation's highest civilian honor to Cecile Richards, a woman who made millions of dollars helping snuff out millions of American lives.

Pro-life critics have suggested a society that valued life would arrest, not award, Richards.

"With absolute courage, she fearlessly leads us forward to be the America we say we are — a nation of freedom," wrote Biden. "Through her work to lift up the dignity of workers, defend and advance women's reproductive rights and equality, and mobilize Americans to exercise their power to vote, she has carved an inspiring legacy."

'We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver.'

According to the White House, the award is "presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public, or private endeavors."

Richards, the daughter of the late Democratic Texas Gov. Ann Richards and a former deputy chief of staff for Nancy Pelosi, served from 2006 to 2018 as president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America — an organization founded by the infamous eugenicist Margaret Sanger, who stressed the need to "apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization, and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring."

The abortion tallies in Planned Parenthood's annual reports indicate that under Richards' leadership, the organization slaughtered over 3.87 million babies. In her final year, when the organization killed 332,757 babies, Richards' salary was $1,033,274, having fallen short of seven figures the previous fiscal year by roughly $42,000.

The organization under Richards reportedly created the super PAC Planned Parenthood Votes and expanded its lobbying arm, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, lining the coffers of Democratic lawmakers on the one hand and pushing for increased access and federal funding to abortion services on the other.

Leftists have also credited Richards with seeing the organization through the scandal that arose over pro-life citizen journalist and Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden's undercover videos in 2015 showing Planned Parenthood officials callously talking about butchering, playing with, and trafficking baby parts.

The CMP posted a video on July 14, 2015, showing a senior director of medical services at Planned Parenthood, Deborah Nucatola, state matter-of-factly over wine and lunch, "We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that 'I'm not gonna crush that part, I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact.'"

"I'd say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they'll know where they're putting their forceps," continued Nucatola. "The kind of rate-limiting step of the procedure is calvarium. Calvarium — the head — is basically the biggest part."

Richards stressed in the aftermath of the video's release, "Our donation programs — like any other high-quality health care providers' — follow all laws and ethical guidelines," reported the New York Times.

After 12 years making money off death and sterilizations, Richards co-founded Supermajority, a leftist female-led PAC that quickly netted millions of dollars from George Soros.

Richards was diagnosed in 2023 with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain tumor with an average survival time of just over a year.

'Scary place to be.'

"Cecile Richards presided over the abortions of 3.9 million babies as president of Planned Parenthood," tweeted Live Action president Lila Rose. "She belongs in jail. Not in the White House receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

"She is literally a merchant of death," wrote Dan McLaughlin of National Review. "Hard to think of a living person who has killed more Americans."

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro noted, "Her legacy is millions of dead unborn children."

'This honor marks a dark chapter in the late stages of one of the darkest presidencies in American history.'

Kristan Hawkins, presidents of Students for Life, tweeted that with Richards at the helm, some of Planned Parenthood's victims' bodies were "dissected and sold to the highest bidder. Planned Parenthood representatives haggled over prices for livers and brains. Planned Parenthood’s abortions skyrocketed under Richards even as the organization’s number of total clients plummeted year after year. Cecile Richards is anything but honorable. What a disgrace."

Pro-Life Wisconsin pointed out that "ironically, the babies aborted under Cecile Richards' watch will never have freedom. Their rights were stripped as they were killed in ... what should have been the greatest place of safety — their mother's womb."

Edward Feser, a Catholic professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College, suggested Biden conferring the medal upon Richards showed his true colors: "The 'personally opposed, but …' Catholic Democrat line on abortion was always rank dishonesty, but to commend a ghoul like this is to drop even pretense. Biden's effectively using the last days of whatever cognitive clarity he has left to destroy his conscience. Scary place to be."

Blaze News previously reported that Cardinal Raymond Burke, a canon lawyer and former prefect of the Catholic Church's highest court, said in 2020 that Biden "is not a Catholic in good standing and he should not approach to receive Holy Communion."

"This is not a political statement," continued Burke. "I don't intend to get involved in recommending any candidate for office, but simply to state that a Catholic may not support abortion in any shape or form because it is one of the most grievous sins against human life and has always been considered to be intrinsically evil and therefore to in any way support act is a mortal sin."

Biden reiterated that he is a "practicing Catholic."

"This honor marks a dark chapter in the late stages of one of the darkest presidencies in American history when it comes to protecting mothers and unborn children," Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, told the Washington Times. "Planned Parenthood has used billions of taxpayer dollars to profit from the tragic extermination of millions of children, while exploiting the health and well-being of countless women."

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Police foil transvestite teen's alleged plot to shoot up a school in Maryland: 'Little kids make easier targets'



Police arrested a transgender-identifying high school student in Maryland who was allegedly plotting to execute a mass murder, possibly at an elementary school.

According to the Montgomery County Department of Police, Andrea Ye of Rockville, a biological female who refers to herself as a male and prefers to be called Alex, penned a 129-page "manifesto" about committing a school shooting, detailing how she intended to carry out the evil act.

The charging documents reveal some of the monstrous admissions Ye allegedly put to paper. For instance, she allegedly wrote, "I want to shoot up my school. I've been preparing for it for the past few months. As I sit in front of my dad's gun case and stare at the sleek, black gun inside, all I can think about is my finger on the trigger, taking aim, and killing people. ... This gun is going to change lives tomorrow."

On another page of the "manifesto," the charging document indicated Ye wrote, "As I walk through the hallways, I cherry pick the classrooms that are the easiest targets."

Elsewhere, Ye — whose preferred pronouns mainstream news outlets have dutifully used — is said to have written, "I have also considered shooting up my former elementary school because little kids make easier targets."

#BREAKING 18yo charged with threats of mass destruction. @mcpnews allege Andrea Ye, who prefers the name Alex and identifies as male, planned shootings at Wooten HS and Lakewood ES and detailed them in a manifesto. An 18 page charging doc includes a number of excerpts:
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WRC-TV indicated that officials were initially tipped off about the threat by someone who met Ye at a psychiatric facility. According to charging documents, Ye has undergone mental health treatment for years.

The MCPD was notified of the transvestite's manifesto by the FBI and subsequently investigated the matter in concert with the FBI Baltimore Field Office.

After obtaining a search warrant, the MCPD found internet searches, drawings, and documents "related to threats of mass violence." Ye allegedly contemplated targeting Lakewood Elementary School and said "that [she] wants to be famous."

Ye has been charged with threats of mass violence and is being held at the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit while awaiting her bond hearing.

Had officials not intervened, Ye may have continued the pattern of horrific attacks executed by radical transvestites, which includes the Sept. 20, 2018, mass shooting outside a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, Maryland; the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch mass shooting in Colorado; the November 2022 massacre at a LGBT club in Colorado Springs; the massacre of children at a Christian elementary school in Nashville in March 2023; and the mass school shooting in Perry, Iowa, in January.

There have also been other foiled attempts of blood-lettings that would have otherwise conformed to this pattern. For instance, a Nazi-supporting transvestite in Oregon was arrested in January, threatening to "go out in a blaze of glory."

Trans-identifying suspects' share of mass public shootings nationwide over the 2018-2023 period is reportedly well over seven times their share of the population.

Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School in Rockville, part of the Montgomery County Public Schools system, appears to have been Ye's prime target. WRC indicated a map of the school was found in her manifesto.

Police specifically noted the high school when discussing their efforts to coordinate increased security with the MCPS.

The MCPS confirmed in a statement obtained by WTTG-TV that Ye is enrolled at the high school but has not physically attended an MCPS school since the fall of 2022, reported WTTG-TV. She has apparently been taking lessons via the district's Online Pathways to Graduation virtual program.

"The charges are extremely serious, involving alleged threats to harm others," said the MCPS. "We value and appreciate the close collaboration between MCPS and MCPD in this matter, which is an example of our shared commitment to identify and address potential threats with due process before they materialize."

The MCPS noted further it cannot share additional information on account of student privacy law.

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Ohio mom who abandoned her baby to go on a 10-day vacation gets life without parole: 'The ultimate betrayal'



An Ohio mother went on a 10-day summer vacation in June 2023. Rather than bring her 16-month-old daughter Jailyn along, Kristel Candelario, 32, decided instead to leave the baby behind to fend for herself in a dirty playpen.

Jailyn died a slow, painful death, losing nearly half her body weight before succumbing to starvation and dehydration.

The victim's cruel and callous mother pleaded guilty on Feb. 22 to one count of aggravated murder and one count of endangering children.

The Associated Press reported that Candelario claimed at her sentencing Monday that God and Jailyn have forgiven her. She received no such forgiveness from County Common Pleas Court Judge Brendan Sheehan.

"Just as you didn't let Jailyn out of her confinement, so too you should spend the rest of your life in a cell without freedom," Sheehan said Monday. "The only difference will be, the prison will at least feed you and give you liquid that you denied her."

The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office indicated that Candelario left Jailyn alone and unattended at her home near Lorain Avenue and West 97th Street in Cleveland on June 6, then went gallivanting around Detroit and Puerto Rico. According to Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Anna Faraglia, Candelario had also left the baby alone for two days immediately before going on the vacation.

Candelario eventually made her way back home on June 16. Upon finding her baby dead and emaciated, the child-killer called police.

First responders found Jailyn "in a Pack-N-Play pen on a liner soiled with urine and feces with soiled blankets."

Candelario was subsequently arrested and held on a $1 million bond. She initially pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, and endangering children.

During the trial, Derek Smith, the child-killer's attorney, attempted to paint his client as an emotionally overburdened single mother of two who was "not thinking clearly." The attempt was wasted on all those confronted with the facts in court.

Dr. Elizabeth Mooney, the deputy Cuyahoga County medical examiner, testified in court Monday that the child weighed 20 pounds at her last doctor's visit in late spring. When Jailyn's body was recovered, it weighed 13 pounds, reported NBC News.

Mooney said Jailyn's death was "one of the most tragic and unfortunate cases I've had in my career thus far," noting that the baby likely suffered for an entire week before passing away.

Investigators indicated that Candelario attempted to mask the consequence of her actions, changing Jailyn's clothes just before first responders arrived. They nevertheless observed the feces in the baby's eyes and under her fingernails.

"The thought of this child dying every day while she's having fun — humanity can't stomach that," said Faraglia. "And those are the actions that need to be punished. She abandoned her daughter and left her for dead."

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley said in a statement that Jailyn was "a beautiful baby girl who was taken from this world due to her mother's unimaginable selfishness."

"The thought of going on vacation for 10 days and leaving your child to starve to death in her Pack-N-Play is a new low in parental care," added O'Malley.

Court TV reported that Faraglia asked the court to consider jail phone calls in which the child-killer allegedly indicated she had a "blast" while on vacation in Puerto Rico and made plans for what she might do when freed from prison.

Faraglia stressed that Candelario appeared unrepentant, quoting the child-killer as saying, "It's not like I did it intentionally. It's not like I picked up a gun or a bat or the girl bled."

The judge said when sentencing the child-killer in the death penalty state, "The bond between a mother and child is one of the purest and most sacred bonds between human beings. It's a relationship based on love, trust and unwavering protection. Yet, in a shocking betrayal of fundamental trust, you committed the ultimate act of betrayal, leaving your baby terrified, alone, unprotected to suffer what I heard was the most gruesome death imaginable."

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Colorado duo arrested after children's remains found encased in concrete, stuffed in suitcase



Police in Colorado have charged two suspects with dual counts of murder and abuse of a corpse following the discovery of children's remains in a suitcase and a metal container south of Denver.

The City of Pueblo Police Department charged and arrested Corena Rose Minjarez, 36, last week. Jesus Dominguez, 35 — also charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of abuse of a corpse, as well as an additional charge of theft of government benefits — was arrested on Saturday.

Jesus Dominguez Jr. and Yesenia Dominguez went missing in the summer of 2018. At the time, their ages were 5 and 3. Investigators were hoping to find the children alive. Instead they found two horrific crime scenes.

Pueblo police were dispatched to a storage facility on Jan. 20 to follow up on a report of suspicious activity. A person at the scene had located a metal container in a storage unit filled with hardened concrete. Investigators searched the container, finding the remains of a child buried within.

Two days later, Pueblo police established that the remains belonged to a young female.

Following the grisly discovery, police arrested Jesus Dominguez and Corena Minjarez. According to police, the suspects raised the possibility that the children were in Phoenix, Arizona. However, when police explored this possibility, it proved to be a dead end.

While the suspects were initially cut loose, police soon explored additional troubling links between the duo and the victims.

Earlier this month, police tracked down a vehicle belonging to Minjarez at a local scrap yard. On Feb. 6, officers executed a search warrant and found a young boy's body stuffed into a suitcase and locked away in the trunk.

On Feb. 15, Pueblo police confirmed through DNA analysis that the remains discovered at the two locations belonged to the missing Dominguez children.

Sgt. Franklyn Ortega of the Pueblo Police Department told the New York Times that no missing children report had been filed regarding the victims. While police had apparently made welfare checks for the children, they had failed to locate them.

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Vegas teen previously accused of gleefully mowing down retired police chief in stolen car charged in unrelated stabbing



Jesus Ayala of Las Vegas allegedly went on a murderous rampage with a friend in August — laughing maniacally on camera while running other vehicles off the road in a stolen vehicle, then mowing down 64-year-old retired police chief Andreas Probst.

New criminal charges filed on Jan. 19 indicate this monstrous bloodletting may not have been Ayala's first. Another victim has stepped forward, accusing Ayala of a crime that occurred in June 2023.

"Recently it came to our attention that [Ayala] allegedly was involved in an attempted murder case, a stabbing, so we charged him with crimes resulting in that," Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told KSNV-TV.

Months ahead of Ayala's alleged August rampage, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department received a report that a stabbing victim whose torso and ear had been slashed multiple times walked into the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada on June 27, reported KVVU-TV.

Hospital records reportedly indicated that the victim, taken to the hospital by his roommate, suffered multiple stab wounds to the face and a stab wound to the back.

The victim told investigators at the time that two males ambushed him with brass knuckles, brutalized him, then left him lying on the ground without robbing him. A bloody knife was later found near the scene of the attack.

The victim later clarified in an interview with police that a male suspect first accused him of stealing something, then five individuals came over and began attacking him.

A witness confirmed to police on June 28 that five individuals ostensibly under the age of 18 participated in an "extremely violent" attack on the victim. The witness added that had the attack continued, the victim would surely have perished.

Ayala was later identified by a witness as one of the "big homies" involved in the savage June attack.

Cellphone records cited by police place Ayala in the area of the attack at the time of the stabbing, reported KSNV.

While the knife found at the scene of the crime reportedly did not come back with a "suitable print match" to Ayala, forthcoming DNA results may alternatively confirm who did the stabbing.

The victim ultimately identified Ayala from a photo lineup as his attacker on Sept. 19, 2023.

Ayala is scheduled to appear in in Clark County Justice Court on Feb. 28 for a preliminary hearing on the new attempted murder charge.

"Mr. Ayala is entitled to his day in court, he is entitled to have a good lawyer, he is entitled to cross-examine the witnesses, he is entitled to present devices on his own behalf, but at the end of the day we have a jury system and court jury will decide his guilt or innocence," Wolfson told KSNV. "We feel very confident in the strength of our case, we feel very confident that we will get justice for these victims."

"We have accused him of doing some pretty serious things. I mean open murder, you can't get more serious than that, and now an attempted murder charge," added Wolfson.

Ayala's other trial begins on Nov. 12.

Blaze News previously reported that Ayala was indicted by a grand jury in October for murder with the use of a deadly weapon; attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon; battery with use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm; and two counts of failing to stop at the scene of a crash involving death. The charges were enhanced because Probst, the former police chief of Bell, California, was a senior citizen.

Both Ayala and co-defendant Jzamir Keys were also slapped with felony charges of residential burglary, use of a deadly weapon, three counts of grand larceny auto, and three counts of possession of a stolen vehicle.

The duo appear to have filmed themselves driving a white sedan off the road on Aug. 14, then targeting Probst for slaughter. Ayala is believed to have been behind the wheel at the time.

In the video, one of the perpetrators can be heard asking the other, "Ready?"

The other responds, "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Hit his a**," all the while laughing.

The duo proceed to run over Probst, leaving his crumpled body bleeding out on the roadside.

The vehicle Ayala allegedly used to kill Probst was found less than 10 minutes away from the crash site with blood streaked across its windshield.

After allegedly murdering Probst, Ayala and his compatriot are said to have stolen additional vehicles, then crashed them into one another for fun near a shopping plaza.

Police found another video on Ayala's cell phone allegedly showing the duo also driving into a 72-year-old man on a bicycle, then roaring with laughter. The other cyclist survived the attack.

While ineligible for the death penalty, Ayala faces a maximum of life in state prison.

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Texas yoga teacher who murdered love rival and fled country seeks retrial, pushing victimhood narrative



Kaitlin Armstrong, 36, killed pro cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson on May 11, 2022. The Austin woman tried to escape the consequences, fleeing to Costa Rica, where she got a new nose, changed her hair, and took up a short-lived career as a yoga instructor.

American authorities ultimately managed to track her down and drag her back to face justice. Following her failed attempt to flee, a Texas jury convicted Armstrong of first-degree murder, slapped her with a $10,000 fine, and awarded her a 90-year prison sentence.

Once again, the 36-year-old killer appears keen to avoid accountability for her callous crimes.

Armstrong is now seeking a retrial, hoping a new victim narrative and dubious claims about being pregnant after the slaying might prompt a more sympathetic response from a jury.

Green-eyed jealousy

Blaze News previously reported that Wilson, a 25-year-old Vermont native and world-class cyclist, was in Austin on May 11, 2022, to compete in a cycling race. Hours before her slaying, she went out for a bike ride and a meal with Colin Strickland, a fellow cyclist and former boyfriend.

Strickland also happened to be an on-again, off-again boyfriend of Armstrong's.

Strickland told the Austin-American Statesman that he and Wilson "had a brief romantic relationship from late October-early November 2021 that spanned a week or so while Wilson was visiting Austin. At the time, she and I had both recently ended relationships. She returned to her home in California and about a month later, Kaitlin Armstrong and I reconciled and resumed our relationship."

Strickland noted that his subsequent encounters with Wilson were "platonic and professional."

Prosecutors revealed during the trial that Armstrong had access to Strickland's texts and also used a geolocation app to track Wilson. In addition to obsessing over the victim's social media profile in the days leading up to her trigger pull, she also made note of Wilson's address.

Authorities later learned that ahead of the slaying, Armstrong acquired a firearm and expressed indignation upon learning Strickland had been romantically involved with Wilson.

A fleet-footed murderer

On the night of the murder, surveillance video caught Armstrong pulling up in her black Jeep Grand Cherokee to the residence where Wilson was staying — just moments after Strickland dropped the cyclist off following their platonic get-together.

Prosecutor Rickey Jones told the jury, "The last thing Mo did on this Earth was scream in terror."

Surveillance footage caught the sound of the victim's screams, "followed by pow! Pow! Two gunshots – one to the front of the head, one to the side of the head that hits the index finger as it passes. You won't hear any more screams after that," said Jones.

Caitlin Cash, Wilson's friend whose apartment Armstrong transformed into a crime scene, returned home to find Wilson unresponsive and bleeding on the bathroom floor. She reportedly performed CPR, but to no avail.

Police later pronounced Wilson dead at the scene, three days before she was scheduled to compete in the 157-mile Gravel Locos bike race.

After murdering Wilson, Armstrong solder her Jeep for $12,200, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. This appears to have provided her with sufficient cash for her exodus.

Armstrong went on the run for 43 days. During this time, she changed her appearance, searched news reports about the murder investigation, and researched how to burn off her fingerprints.

Finally, U.S. and Costa Rican authorities tracked her down to a hostel on Santa Teresa Beach in Provincia de Puntarenas and busted her on June 29, 2022.

The murderer attempted to dodge consequence again on Oct. 11, 2023, faking an injury to go to a doctor's appointment outside the prison, then running away from corrections officers. Deputies were able to catch up with her before she could flee to another Latin American destination.

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Armstrong was found guilty of murder on Nov. 16. She elected for the jury to determine her sentence, which turned out to be 90 years in the slammer.

Another attempt to avoid accountability

The murderer's attorney filed a motion for a new trial in the District Court of Travis County, Texas, on Dec. 15.

In the filing obtained by the Daily Mail, Armstrong's attorney argued a jury might otherwise have given her a lighter sentence had they known she was supposedly pregnant — a claim not once made during her trial, which some now find hard to believe.

Austin attorney Adam Loewy told the Daily Mail, "There's many problems with the theory."

For starters, while evading justice in Costa Rica, Armstrong got a nose job, a brow lift, and filler injections. Such surgeries require medical professionals to inquire about a woman's health status, including whether they are pregnant. According to testimonies heard in court, Armstrong was cleared for surgery after providing her surgeons with the requisite lab work, which apparently omitted any mention of her being with child.

"The fact is she's just trying, or her new lawyers are trying, any kind of desperate move to try to overturn the conviction," said Loewy. "You try everything in these situations and you hope that the appellate courts bites on something."

The filing also tries to paint the cold-blooded killer as a victim whose dad abandoned her and her alcoholic mother.

"As her family struggled during her childhood, her childhood friend also recalled Kaitlin was the victim of multiple instances of (actual or attempted) sexual violence," claimed Armstrong's lawyer.

On the basis of the pregnancy and victimhood allegations, the filing states, "Considering the sentence here was for 90 years and a maximum fine, there should be no question that this mitigating evidence would have resulted in a more lenient punishment."

It appears Armstrong's lengthy sentence is her own doing — and not just because she's guilty.

The George Soros-backed Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza who set a serial sex offender free reportedly offered Armstrong a plea deal ahead of her trial, which would have meant a prison sentence less than half of what she ultimately received.

A legal source told the Daily Mail, "Against the advice of her attorney, she rejected the plea deal."

Reaction after Kaitlin Armstrong found guilty of murdering Moriah Wilsonyoutu.be

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Police arrest self-proclaimed girlfriend of Uvalde shooter for allegedly threatening victims' families, vowing more violence



A 19-year-old woman claiming to be the girlfriend of the gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas last year has been charged for allegedly making interstate threats, which is a federal crime.

Victoria Gabriela Rodríguez-Morales, whose supposed boyfriend was ultimately put down by police, was arrested Wednesday in Puerto Rico after a grand jury issued a 13-count indictment.

"The U.S. Attorney's Office has no tolerance for illegal threats, especially threats that target people who are the victims of the horrific mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas," U.S. Attorney Stephen Muldrow of the District of Puerto Rico said in a statement. "We hope that this arrest brings a sense of peace to those who were targeted by the defendant."

According to an FBI affidavit obtained by Law & Crime, the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service have been investigating a series of violent interstate threats "directed at public institutions, public officials, and private citizens in Uvalde, Texas, and other Texas areas, from operator(s) in Puerto Rico" for several months.

Rodríguez-Morales was identified as the prime suspect. She had already been under investigation for similar threats targeted at the victims' families since at least 2018 — four years prior to the May 24, 2022, mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

The suspect previously resided with her mother in Uvalde, where she had run-ins with the law and "sent email threats to kill public officials, shoot schools, and kill teachers and students."'

KSAT-TV noted that court documents suggest the suspect was found to have above-average intelligence and a lack of remorse or guilt. She was also reportedly diagnosed with "opposition Defiant Disorder and Intermittent Explosive Disorder."

After a brief stint in a juvenile detention center, she relocated with her family to Puerto Rico around May 2020.

From 2020 up until this year, Rodríguez-Morales threatened the Uvalde Police, Uvalde High School, Morales Junior High School, the Texas Public Safety Department, the Uvalde Fire Department, and other institutions, by email, over social media, and using relatives' phones, according to the FBI affidavit.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Puerto Rico listed some of the many threats the suspect allegedly made, including

  • "They will shoot uvalde high school and morales jr high whenever I tell 'em So yeah the persecution is gonna start today";
  • "I will haunt everyone from class 2022 to 2023 Each and every single one of y'all will die";
  • "Each and every single one of y'all will die in the name of [the school shooter]";
  • "Your childrens hospital may blow in pieces If yall dont do as i say"; and
  • "We will shoot Uvalde Texas high school and Texas A&M college."

The FBI affidavit details various other ghoulish remarks, including, "Lovely they died I'm glad some of their blood runs in my hands Me and [the school shooter] wanted to do this together but he did not wait for me to come," and "more kids will die and teens so don't cry about this one cause there's worse coming."

According to officials, at least one of Rodríguez-Morales' alleged threats resulted in the temporary closure of a school in Texas.

The suspect also allegedly threatened Kimberly Mata-Rubio, the 34-year-old mother of Lexi, a 10-year-old girl slain in the Robb Elementary School shooting. "If Mata Rubio wins the elections I will kill her," Rodríguez-Morales is quoted as writing.

Mata-Rubio ran for mayor of Uvalde, losing in last month's election to former Mayor Cody Smith.

In a number of the threats issued after her alleged boyfriend was riddled with bullets, the suspect alluded to other people being willing to "start the plan we have." It's presently unclear whether she had been in contact and scheming with the mass shooter's cousin, Nathan Cruz, who was arrested by the San Antonio Police Department on Aug. 8.

The SAPD indicated authorities had been informed by a family member that Cruz was making threats and "upon further investigation, detectives were able to gather enough evidence to produce an arrest warrant for Terrorist Threat."

CNN reported that Cruz's mother allegedly overheard a phone conversation where he was attempting to illegally get his hands on a rifle similar to that used by his cousin in the 2022 mass shooting.

The FBI affidavit indicates that besides other evidence linking the suspect to the threats, she also uploaded photos and videos of herself to accounts associated with the messages.

The suspect faces five years for each of the 13 counts with which she has been charged. As of Thursday, she remained in custody at the Puerto Rico Metropolitan Detention Center.

"The subject in this case was hundreds of miles away from the place she intended to torment through threats of violence. Yet she was still identified, located and arrested," said Joseph González, special agent in charge of the FBI San Juan Field Office. "May this serve as public notice that this behavior will not be tolerated, in Puerto Rico or anywhere else in the nation."

A guardian of one of the Uvalde school shooting victims told KSAT, "I've had threats against my other kids and nothing happens to these people. So I'm glad that something is finally happening."

Guardian of Uvalde shooting victim, FBI respond to arrest of shooter's girlfriendyoutu.be

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'She won't admit to anything': Police arrest babysitter after toddler entrusted to her care found horrifically brutalized



A Colorado mother entrusted her 2-year-old son to the care of a babysitter with whom she was on friendly terms in early September. A few hours later, Stefanie Reichert learned via text message that her baby boy, Giovanni, "had gone lifeless after a bath." When the mother arrived at the hospital, she couldn't believe the extent of Giovanni's injuries.

The babysitter, McKinley Slone Hernandez, 25, was arrested Friday on a charge of felony child abuse.

While Hernandez has reportedly admitted to being impaired on the night in question, she has not yet accounted for why the toddler's entire body was covered with bruises, why his brain was bleeding, and why his eyes were swollen shut.

"She won't admit to anything," Reichert told KDVR-TV. "All she's said is she was drinking, and he got hurt in her care."

Reichert said that Hernandez was a friend of hers who had on previous occasions watched her son as well as other children at an unlicensed child care facility at her home.

The mother figured Sept. 1 would similarly go smoothly. However, just hours into the evening, she "received a text message from the suspect saying I needed to rush to St. Anthony's Hospital because my son had gone lifeless after a bath."

Giovanni had been airlifted to the hospital to undergo a series of life-saving surgeries.

"Once I saw him and all the 50 doctors standing around him, I had to leave the room because it was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life," said Reichert.

The mother told KUSA-TV that doctors had to remove a part of her son's skull due to bleeding on the brain. Mortifying photographs of the boy's injuries show a sickle-shaped scar across the child's shaved head.

According to a GoFundMe page created to help with the boy's medical expenses, Giovanni was intubated and sedated early on so that his brain could recover.

After several operations and weeks at spent at the hospital, Reichert indicated on Sept. 20, "Giovanni has been beating all odds! ... The power of prayer is a real thing and we are just so blessed to be this far and so soon!"

This week, Reichert noted that a Thanksgiving procedure fusing Giovanni's skull back together had been successful. While the boy can be seen in recent pictures wide-eyed and alert, he still requires additional surgeries and faces a difficult uphill battle toward recovery.

While the nature of Giovanni's injuries is unmistakable, it's not clear precisely how the damage was inflicted or why.

"I make up scenarios in my head all the time for the injuries he sustained, so I wish I knew," Reichert told KDVR.

The Thanksgiving arrest of Hernandez brought the family some solace, but Reichert doesn't think the felony child abuse charge goes far enough to address the harm caused.

"I feel so relieved, but I also feel like she should be charged with more. I feel like it's attempted murder, she almost killed my child," said the mother.

Hernandez is being held on a $100,000 cash bond. She was still in custody as of Monday and is due in Jefferson County Court on Dec. 20.

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