{"id":7407,"date":"2026-06-19T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=7407"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:05:27","slug":"dhs-blasts-spanberger-after-illegal-granted-bond-in-child-sex-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/dhs-blasts-spanberger-after-illegal-granted-bond-in-child-sex-case\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Blasts Spanberger After Illegal Granted Bond in Child Sex Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jose Nahun Aleman Hernandez<\/strong>, 43, from Woodbridge, faces charges of aggravated sexual battery following his arrest on June 3 by the Prince William Police Department, as <em>New York Post<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged victim, a five-year-old girl, was at her babysitter&#8217;s residence when Hernandez, who was also present in the home, allegedly touched her inappropriately. Police records indicate the alleged abuse took place during a period stretching from January 2023 to March 2026. The child sustained no physical injuries, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez secured a $5,000 bond, prompting an urgent and highly unusual public intervention by DHS officials who took to social media Wednesday to demand the Virginia governor act to prevent the suspect&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, the federal agency blamed sanctuary policies for undermining public safety. <em>Sanctuary Spanberger&#8217;s REFUSAL to work with [ICE] has made Virginians less safe<\/em>, DHS stated, characterizing the commonwealth as having become a magnet for illegal alien crime due to the governor&#8217;s approach.<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation highlights mounting tensions between federal immigration enforcement authorities and state governments that limit cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday afternoon, <strong>Spanberger<\/strong> had not issued any public response to the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s challenge. The governor&#8217;s office similarly declined to provide comment when contacted by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security publicly criticized Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger over sanctuary policies after an illegal immigrant accused of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl received bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":7406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[4154,7389,1822,264,7388,209,3348],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-7407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abigail-spanberger","tag-child-sexual-assault","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-immigration-enforcement","tag-prince-william-county","tag-united-states","tag-virginia","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7632,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions\/7632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7407"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=7407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}