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Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio just sent a notice that Sterling rape suspect Martin Jose Morales-Mancia is now in the custody of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.

Looking forward to more info about this guy.

Outrage.

The Loudoun County government is screwed, and needs to be eviscerated, burned down, and replaced. Something happened in Sterling Thursday night which should make every resident of Loudoun County wonder what the hell is going on with our Sheriff’s Office and our zoning enforcement “team”.

I will tell you in the next paragraph what actually happened, from conversations with someone who happens to know the victim, and below the fold is what the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office deigns to reveal. Please notice the differences.

Late Thursday night, August 28 (early Friday morning, August 29) around midnight, a large, Spanish-speaking male knocked down the door at a house on Ironwood Road in Sterling, occupied by a woman in her early 70s. The man had a very large knife. He shouted at the woman “I am going to cut you to bits! I am going to cut you to bits!” He slashed her numerous times with the knife. He beat her, and forced her into a position where he was poised to rape her, but at the last moment suffered a “performance” problem and could not complete the act. He fled. The woman called 911, but by the time law enforcement showed up the attacker could not be found.

The neighborhood in which this incident occurred, in the area of Ironwood Road, Redwood Road, and Greenthorne Avenue, is one of the worst-hit in Sterling by illegal aliens. I have spent some time driving through the area over the past couple years and I can attest that it is terrible, with numerous residences displaying the signs of illegal flophouses, including screen doors propped open (signifies “rooms for rent”), lots of cars per residence, plenty of signs of MS-13 activity, and a generally crappy atmosphere. I am told by people familiar with zoning enforcement complaints that the area has been the subject of many overcrowding complaints sent to the completely non-functional Loudoun County Department of Building and Development (aka, the Black Hole), and, as we have established, it is apparently just another section designated for Loudoun County Government-sponsored blight.

From everything I have seen, submitting an overcrowding complaint from Sterling is pointless because Terry Wharton’s department gets paid to do absolutely nothing. Here’s an interesting question about Wharton’s “Department”: How much could we save if we just fire them all – and I mean all? Let’s have no “Department” and, on the rare occasion such a “Department” would actually need to do some work, we could hire subcontractors. It might not be perfect, but it also would not cost us any money to have sections of our neighborhood allowed to be cesspools. I mean, if cesspools are deemed necessary, then let’s not be paying the salaries of Loudoun County “zoning enforcement” staff. Not add insult to injury, as it were.

But while we can and should point fingers at Terry Wharton’s miserable farce of a government agency, and by extension we should ask what the hell our county supervisors and county administrator are doing by allowing the blight to fester here, and why the citizens have not yet marched with torches and pitchforks on all of the above, the biggest question of all is:

What is our Sheriff’s Office doing? Or rather, what are they NOT doing?

Or further: Who the hell is letting the LCSO get away with what they are getting away with?

I point you to below the fold – the “alert” helpfully provided by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. This is all the citizens have seen, and frankly the only citizens who have seen it are those who are on the e-mail list (I am not) and those who happen to read the report in whatever local paper happened to reprint the news release. It is a completely whitewashed version of the incident, which almost no one in Sterling will even get to read. It indicates the attacker “spoke with an accent.”

Hey, friends, that is a bit inaccurate. In fact, it attempts to erase from the incident report the basic fact the attacker was a Hispanic in an area where Hispanic criminals might well be considered a key problem in the neighborhood. It also tones down the severity of the attack.

Bottom line? In my view, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office is attempting to hide the facts of the incident.

In short, no one – no one official in Loudoun County – cares. What a fricking disgrace. Hey, friends: Maybe now you understand why we wanted Greg Ahlemann to be our Sheriff.

The neighborhood area beset by illegals, and a vicious sexual attack by a Hispanic male, are facts that are being swept under the rug. The LCSO is not doing ANY community outreach to warn the residents of Sterling Park. The local media are NOT investigating the incident – they never managed to get the info I have, which is hard to believe.

Why is the Loudoun County Government not conducting a major communications offensive to alert residents that they need to be on the watch for Hispanic males who may be trying to do home invasions? Why are the LCSO and “zoning enforcement” allowed to not do their jobs?

Our county government is broken. We need to fire all of them and start over again.
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