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Blue School District Doubles Down On ‘Inclusive’ Facilities After Registered Sex Offender Exposes Self To Young Girls

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The Arlington Public Schools (APS) Superintendent released a statement recently affirming the district’s commitment to “inclusive” facilities after a registered sex offender was caught repeatedly exposing himself to young girls in a locker room on school property.

Richard K. Cox, a tier three registered sex offender who was first charged with indecent liberties in Arlington in 1992, was arrested in December 2024 after several people reported a naked man watching women in the changing room of the Arlington Aquatic Center, which shares facilities with Washington Liberty-High School, according to ABC 7News. The man apparently identifies as a transgender woman.

When asked about the incident, APS Superintendent Francisco Durán released a statement doubling down on the district’s commitment to building an “inclusive community” for “those who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community,” stating, “[o]ur facilities are designed to be safe, welcoming spaces where our community can come to connect, engage and focus on their health and well-being,” according to the statement obtained by 7News.

“APS permits pool patrons to access restrooms and facilities that correspond to their gender identity,” an APS spokesman told 7News. “We take every report of concerning or unsafe behavior very seriously and do not tolerate behaviors from any individual who is threatening or making others feel unsafe. APS responded to all patron concerns related to this matter in a timely manner and took appropriate and immediate action to investigate, notify law enforcement, and prevent the individual from returning to our pool facilities.”

Durán claims APS took action “immediately” to address the concerns, but some women allege the school was aware of Cox’s presence at the school months prior.

Several women apparently alerted the director of Aquatics Management at APS, Helena Machado, of the man’s presence in September of 2024 but were told to use the individual changing facilities if they were uncomfortable, the Arlington GOP said.

“At the conclusion of the lesson, my daughter […] and I entered the locker room labeled simply ‘Women’s Lockers’ and were startled to find an adult individual whose head, face, shoulders and chest were covered by a towel but the individual’s penis, testicles and legs were fully exposed to anyone walking through the entrance,” one woman told the Arlington GOP. “I sent an email to the APS Aquatic Center director to simply clarify the changing room policy in the aquatic center as it relates to different genders. I received no response. This is unacceptable.”

The woman later spoke to a manager in person and was told that the facility is open to the public and that considerations were being made to change the signage to allow the locker room to be open to all genders, the GOP alleged.

Cox’s pending charges in Arlington County include 12 counts of loitering near a school, daycare, park or playground as a registered sex offender, three counts of entering school or daycare property as a registered sex offender, four counts of indecent exposure, two counts of indecent liberties with a child and one count of identity theft since October of 2024. Prior to the incidents in Arlington, Cox was arrested in Fairfax county in June of 2024 for indecent exposure in the women’s locker room of a Planet Fitness, though the charges were dropped after Cox argued he legally changed his sex to female, according to 7News.

“Transgender people identify as belonging to a gender which may not conform to the sex they were assigned at birth,” Cox argued to the court at the time, according to 7News. “For a transgender person to be observed in a locker room nude is no proof that this also was anything more than platonic.”

APS and the APS school board did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comments.

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Deported Eight Times, Migrant Sex Offender with Vast Criminal Record Enters U.S. Again

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In a disturbing case that illustrates the gravity of the security lapses along the southwest border, an illegal immigrant sex offender with an extensive criminal record and previously deported eight times was caught entering the country yet again through Mexico. His name is Elvis Cristian Hernandez-Ayala and the U.S. Border Patrol recently caught him trying to bypass a checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas. Agents arrested the 37-year-old criminal migrant and three others as they walked through a ranch not far from the border.

When Hernandez-Ayala was further vetted authorities confirmed he had been previously removed from the United States eight times following convictions for felony possession of a controlled substance, driving while intoxicated and sexual assault. A few days ago, a Trump appointed federal judge in Texas, David S. Morales, sentenced Hernandez-Ayala to 37 months in federal prison for returning to the U.S. without permission, the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed in an announcement that says the migrant pleaded guilty. In the document the DOJ writes that Hernandez-Ayala was on supervised release for a prior illegal re-entry conviction and that he also got slapped with a 12-month prison sentence for that violation.

During the criminal migrant’s most recent court hearing, federal prosecutors presented evidence about Hernandez-Ayala’s frequent illegal re-entries and what the DOJ calls a “troubling criminal history,” that includes convictions for sexual assault involving the rape of another illegal alien in a stash house. Hernandez-Ayala is expected to be transferred to a yet to be determined federal prison to serve his sentence. As if it needs to be spelled out, the DOJ writes in its recent announcement that, because Hernandez-Ayala is “not a U.S. citizen, he is expected to face removal proceedings” following his imprisonment. Based on his history and the famously porous southern border, Hernandez-Ayala will likely return.

A growing number of illegal immigrants that enter the U.S. through Mexico have criminal records like Hernandez-Ayala. In fact, in the last few years the figure has surged dramatically. In 2021 the Border Patrol arrested twice as many criminal aliens during a six-month period alone than in all of the previous year. Among them were 982 convicted of possessing illegal drugs or trafficking, 576 convicted of assault, battery, and domestic violence, 832 guilty of driving under the influence, 381 convicted of burglary, robbery, larceny, theft, and fraud, 265 sex offenders and 162 guilty of Illegal weapons possession, transport, and trafficking. The government stats also reveal that thousands of the criminal aliens arrested in the first half of the fiscal year were previously deported after illegal entry or illegal reentry just like Hernandez-Ayala.

A few years earlier, federal authorities disclosed that over 90% of illegal aliens arrested in the U.S. had criminal convictions or pending charges. They included 56,000 assaults and thousands of sex crimes, robberies, homicides and kidnappings. Many had “extensive criminal histories with multiple convictions,” according to a report issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE). The 123,128 illegal aliens arrested by the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in 2019 had an alarming 489,063 criminal convictions and pending charges, according to agency records. That translates to an average of four crimes per alien, highlighting the “recidivist nature” of the arrested migrants, the agency points out, noting that sanctuary cities nationwide greatly impeded its public safety efforts by shielding even the most violent illegal aliens from deportation.

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