Guatemalan Man Unlawfully in the U.S. and Previously Convicted of Sexual Battery Pleads Guilty to Encouraging and Inducing an Unaccompanied Alien Child and to Fraudulently Obtaining Custody of the Child

A Guatemalan national unlawfully residing in the United States and previously convicted of sexual battery pleaded guilty today in federal court in Cleveland to encouraging and inducing an unaccompanied alien child (UAC) to illegally enter the United States and to submitting a sponsorship application with false statements to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to gain custody of the UAC.