Border Patrol agent identified after suicide, kidnapping, sexual assault of immigrants
Ildefonso Ortiz, Karen Antonacci and Jared Taylor, The Monitor
NEAR ABRAM — A U.S. Border Patrol agent came across two girls and a woman near the Rio Grande before dusk Wednesday, when he took them into his custody, investigators said.
But rather than arrest the Honduran nationals suspected of an immigration violation, he broke the law himself.
Border Patrol agent Esteban Manzanares, 32, raped the woman and slashed her wrists. He then turned to her 14-year-old daughter and sexually assaulted her, as well, and tried to break her neck. The girl passed out as a result.
The mother and one daughter managed to flee, said three law enforcement officials investigating or briefed on the case.
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