Authored by David Manney via PJ Media,
A child's age can be central to a sex crime. It helps establish what happened, identify the victim's vulnerability, and determine the consequences for the person responsible.
But a guide for Bronx prosecutors reportedly offered another reason to consider a child's age: keeping it out of the offense a defendant pleads to could help the defendant avoid deportation.
From the New York Post:
Not even cases involving child sex crimes are off-limits - with Clark's office asking assistant DAs in a 2019 guide to "immigration-conscious plea bargaining" to "[o]ffer something that does not have the child's age as an element of the crime."
Meanwhile, in Queens, DA Melinda Katz has told her prosecutors to "exercise extreme caution" and "not get caught up in the label of [f]elonies, [m]isdemeanors" for illegal aliens, according to the report published five months after the committee sent requests for information on the Big Apple's so-called "sanctuary" policies to prosecutor's offices in all five boroughs, as well as the NYPD and Department of Correction.
According to the report, the NYPD has received nearly 10,000 detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for illegal aliens charged with crimes in the past
