{"id":11610,"date":"2024-07-13T05:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T05:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2024-07-13T05:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T05:56:44","slug":"wisconsin-father-accused-of-fatally-stabbing-his-two-children-was-in-u-s-illegally-from-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11610","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Father Accused of Fatally Stabbing His Two Children was in U.S. Illegally from Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-father-accused-of-fatally-stabbing-his-two-children-was-in-us-illegally-from-mexico\/jtnews\/2024\/07\/13\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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by Nicholas Ballasy<\/h5>\n

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A man accused of fatally stabbing his two children and injuring his wife in a Wisconsin town was living in the United States illegally, Just the News confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n

Victor Manuel Gomez Acosta<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0been charged with\u00a0two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and attempted homicide. His bond is set at $1 million and his first court date is scheduled for July 30.<\/p>\n

According to a local news report, investigators arrived at a home on Oak Street in Abbotsford \u201caround 1:40 a.m. on July 5\u2033 after a woman went to a nearby relative\u2019s to call 911 reporting she had been stabbed.\u201d She told police that was sleeping when the stabbing happened.<\/p>\n

Gomez Acosta was arrested around 2:30 a.m. at his home, court documents said.<\/p>\n

Alex Bowman, chief of the Colby-Abbotsford Police Department in Wisconsin, told Just the News that the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that\u00a0Gomez Acosta<\/a>, originally from Mexico, is living in the country illegally.<\/p>\n

Bowman said Gomez Acosta had obtained a 6-month work permit at one point but it expired prior to the killings taking place.<\/p>\n

The police department said he was previously arrested for Operating While Intoxicated\/Impaired (OWI) by an outside jurisdiction and arrested for another OWI offense in\u00a0Colby-Abbotsford.<\/p>\n

Bowman said this case is the latest of many instances of an illegal immigrant committing crimes in his jurisdiction. He told Just the News that after 2020, it has been virtually impossible to get Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to take custody of an illegal immigrant who commits a crime and comes in contact with local law enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrior to 2020, it was a lot easier to work with ICE and immigration and now their hands are tied on a lot of things,\u201d he said. \u201cI can tell you that even felons we\u2019ve arrested for felony crimes and stuff, immigration still hasn\u2019t come and gotten them.\u201d<\/p>\n

After an illegal immigrant serves their sentence for a crime \u201cthey are back in society\u201d if federal immigration authorities do not take custody of them, Bowman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to see immigration [officials] all the time over here,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, I haven\u2019t heard from ICE in four years. It\u2019s terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nicholas Ballasy is a reporter for Just the News.
\nPhoto \u201cVictor Manuel Gomez Acosta\u201d by WSAU<\/a>. Background Photo \u201cCourt Room\u201d by Karen Neoh<\/a> CC BY 2.0.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Reprinted with permission from Just the News<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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