An unlawful migrant was arrested this week after allegedly sexually assaulting four girls while working at a church in Maryland between 2016 and 2018.
Ervin Jeovany Alfaro Lopez, a 33-year-old El Salvadoran national and two-time deportee, was booked into the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit on March 11 on nearly two dozen child sex abuse and sex offense charges. These include multiple counts of sex abuse of a minor, one of rape in the second degree, and two counts of sex offense in the third degree.
Alfaro Lopez’s victims were reportedly between the ages of 6 and 12 at the time of the alleged incidents. At the time of the alleged assaults, he had been a teacher at the Derwood location of the Elim Gaithersburg Church in Montgomery County, Maryland. Arrest records show that the victims allege that they were inappropriately touched during movie showings and prayer.
Detectives believe there may be more victims who have yet to come forward, per local news outlet WUSA 9.
Alfaro Lopez was arrested in Louisiana in 2015 for unlawfully entering the country, a representative from ICE told WUSA 9. However, he was released on a $7,500 bond and ordered to report to Baltimore’s Enforcement and Removal Operations. In January 2019, he was arrested by that same entity and voluntarily left the U.S. in late April.
In March 2020, Alfaro Lopez was arrested in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and deported a few days later. He re-entered the U.S. unlawfully sometime thereafter.
As recently reported in The Dallas Express, another unlawful migrant from Venezuela, 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra, was arrested last month in connection to the murder of a University of Georgia student named Laken Riley.
A considerable number of unlawful migrants with criminal histories have been stopped at the southern border, with U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso reporting over 12 such arrests in just one week in late February. Most recently, Chief Jason Owens announced the arrest of a Colombian national with prior convictions of homicide, the use of minors to commit crimes, and firearms trafficking by border patrol agents in El Paso.
