[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16000]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         REPARATIONS FOR VICTIM

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, it was described as ``more than 2 hours in 
hell.'' Those are the only words a central Texas sheriff could utter 
about the brutal attack of an 18-year-old girl.
  Driving home one night, she was run off the road by two illegals just 
fired from their jobs for showing up to work hung over. She was 
corralled just 2 miles from her house near Mexia, Texas, but she 
couldn't have been further from safety. They forced her into their 
vehicle, then drove around as they raped, beat and stabbed her numerous 
times. When they had finished their sinful crime, they tossed her 
bloody body in a ditch and left her for dead.
  When she reached a house nearby after crawling over a half mile, she 
lay on the porch and the woman inside heard her say, ``I'm going to 
die.'' The woman who found her covered in blood said she would never as 
long as she lived get that look on her face out of her mind.
  Javier Martinez of Mexico and Noel Hernandez of Honduras will have 
their day of judgment in a Texas courthouse very soon. But the two 
countries these outlaws come from should be held accountable and pay 
reparations to the victim of this assault.
  And that's just the way it is.

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