(WASHINGTON D.C.) – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer asking Montana officials to not release an illegal alien from jail who is charged with raping his dead girlfriend’s underage daughter.
According to local reports, Wualter Jesus Travieso Soto, an illegal alien from Venezuela, took custody of his girlfriend’s three children – none of whom are related to Soto – after she died in a car accident in 2024. The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office began investigating him in May of 2025 after the girlfriend’s sister found pictures and videos of Soto kissing the eldest daughter. After the children’s aunt gained guardianship of the three children, the daughter admitted that Soto had raped her several times, including one incident where he also choked her.
Police arrested Soto on February 1, 2026. He now faces felony charges of sexual intercourse without consent with a child under 16. He is currently being held in the Flathead County jail with a $200,000 bail.
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