
On Friday, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Horne sentenced illegal alien Arnold J. Mancia-Morales, 25 to life in prison, plus 53 years. On March 12, 2009, a jury convicted Honduran national Mancia-Morales, of raping a 75-year-old woman in her Sterling Park home. The attack occurred in August 2008. The victim’s son who was allowed to testify at the sentencing hearing, said: “Since this happened [my mother] is a completely different person. She used to always go out walking with friends. Now she’s always locked up in the house, and she doesn’t go out after dark. Every time I talk to her she breaks down crying…When you walk into her house, there is a shroud of this incident. It’s everywhere you go. You can’t really escape it.” Mancia-Morales broke into the woman’s home by smashing-in her glass door sometime after midnight. Awoken by the noise, the woman went to investigate, and was attacked. Before he was sentenced, the victim’s daughter told the jury how her mother’s life has been impacted by the attack. She told a heart wrenching account of finding her mother one morning, curled up in the fetal position on the floor, weeping, holding onto a book of scriptures and crying out-loud that she wished she had just been killed. At the March 2009 trial, her daughter said: “I didn’t know what to do, so I just held her.” Her daughter told the court that her mother now goes to counseling and no longer goes out after dark. She added: “She is always looking over her shoulder.” Commonwealth's Attorney James E. Plowman told reporters: "This is an atrocious case, and the victim continues to struggle to deal with this” Mancia-Morales is no stranger to the courts. In 2006 he was convicted of felony burglary, and four misdemeanor charges between 2007-2008, two of which were assaults. In 2007, he forced himself on a young girl at the Sterling library, he received a 100-day sentence for the attack, but all of the time was suspended. Apparently, his illegal status was never reported to federal authorities. Incredibly, the day after his sentencing for the rape of the 75-year-old woman, Mancia-Morales was charged with the brutal rape of a 51-year-old woman in the Newberry section of Sterling Park. That attack took place in April 2008. Northern Virginia has been particularly hard-hit with crimes committed by illegal aliens, following that region’s construction boom of recent years. Of course, the construction industry is dominated by illegal aliens who provide builders with very cheap labor. Though the building boom has ended, most of the illegal aliens have remained in the area. The region, along with D.C. has become a stronghold for the violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13