Abilene, Texas: Refugee translator arrested on sexual assault charges
Posted by acorcoran on December 22, 2010
In my previous post, I reported on the changing demographics of Texas and now, coincidentally, comes this story about an African refugee translator allegedly preying on those he was hired to help.
From ReporterNews.com:
Abilene police said they believe Aloys Nzeyimana used his role as a translator in the African refugee community in Abilene to hide sexual assault crimes against female refugees by intimidating his victims to stay quiet.
Nzeyimana was arrested Thursday afternoon as he left his job at the Abilene-Taylor County Public Health District where he worked as a translator helping area health officials serve refugees. He had worked as a health department translator since 2005.
Nzeyimana, who was an African refugee and is not an American citizen, was charged Thursday with two counts of sexually assaulting a family member in December 2004, the arrest warrant affidavit filed with the court stated. Police said the victim also was a refugee.
Police asking other victims to come forward
At a Friday news conference at police department offices, Sgt. Lynn Beard urged members of the refugee community, or anyone who knows of a refugee who may be a victim, to contact APD’s criminal investigation department with information about the crime.
Beard said some refugees have great distrust for the government and police because of their interaction with authorities in their home countries in Africa. There, where corruption is a part of everyday life, people have little faith in getting relief from police or any branch of government because they see all governmental agencies as being intertwined and corrupt, he said.
This distrust has hampered the investigation for the past two weeks into sexual assault crimes that police believe Nzeyimana committed over the past half-decade against women in the refugee community in Abilene.
“We believe there are more victims in the African refugee community,” Beard said. “We know there is a lot of fear.”
Beard said some refugees view Nzeyimana as a governmental official and identify him as being an authority figure in the area. Potential victims of any crimes Nzeyimana may have committed may well be reluctant to come forward because of fear the police might retaliate against them, Beard said.
There appears to be no mention in the story about which African nation Nzeyimana came from as a refugee to the US. However, surely, the International Rescue Committee knows Nzeyimana because associated with this report is a link to the International Rescue Committee’s involvement in Abilene. Diversity is beautiful, right IRC?
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Nellie said
This person should be tried in our courts, not the Muslim courts and he should be deported. The tax payers should not have too support him in prison. our prisons are full now with illegals! With no jobs these people turn too crime, Why is this person a translator too start with., Don’t we have Americans that can do this?
Princess said
This person is not muslim,somalien.He’s Burundien.He is a translator cause American don’t speak Swahili, Kirundi, so that’s why.
Nellie said
Thank you! If this person is taking advantage of women and he is not a citizen of the U.S.A he should be deported to his home country and let the country there punish him.
I am fed up with our prisons full of illegals and the tax payers feeding them.
This is really going to make a big burden on the schools. Not many teachers speak Swahili or ?? My daughter is a teacher and it is a full time job trying too keep kids grades up that don’t speak English. I don’t think we should be bringing these people here. Help them in their own country. They only end up on Welfare and no jobs here or take jobs from American people. Work for cash and no taxes paid or health insurance.
GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY
MERRY CHRISTMAS
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Allahsoldier said
Because they are blacks.
SKIP said
Exactly! because they are blacks which is EXACTLY like muslims!
Birm said
What exactly does this have to do with “diversity”? When white people or native-born citizens commit crimes, does that have to do with their race or legal status? Your harping on “diversity = crime” tinged with sarcasm plays a little childish.
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