In a recent ruling, Judge Alison Hatheway sentenced a thrice-deported Nicaraguan immigrant to 19 years of incarceration for the brutal rape of a disabled woman in Ohio.
The 40-year-old convict, German Mathews, had previously been expelled from the United States five times.
Mathews confessed to the charges of rape, felonious assault, and kidnapping in November, attributing his heinous actions to being "possessed by a demon." The assault occurred on April 29, where the victim was pushed down a hill, beaten, and subsequently raped by Mathews. A bystander who witnessed the incident promptly alerted the police, who arrived at the scene while the assault was still underway.
Forest Park police Sgt. Jackie Dreyer, who presented the case to the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, described the scene as horrific. She recounted finding Mathews with his hands "covered in the victim's blood," labeling the incident as one of the most brutal crimes she had encountered in her over two-decade-long career. "He is an animalistic predator whose actions are beyond words, Dreyer stated.
According to FOX 19, James Bogen, Mathews' defense attorney, argued that his client was likely under the influence of alcohol-induced psychosis during the assault, resulting in a memory blackout of the incident. Bogen claimed that Mathews "was horrified" upon viewing the police bodycam footage from the incident, asserting that the man in the video "is not the German Mathews you see here today."
Breitbart News reports that Mathews first entered the U.S. illegally in 2005 and was subsequently deported five times. After his initial capture, he was granted a voluntary return order to Mexico, only to be apprehended weeks later in Miami for drunk driving and driving without a license.
In 2012, following charges of sexual battery, Mathews was deported to Nicaragua by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He was then deported three more times between 2016 and 2017.
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