The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has rearrested an illegal immigrant accused of kidnapping a 4-year-old girl from a Long Island laundromat last month after a local judge released the alleged creep back into the community.
Carlos Corte-Corte, an illegal immigrant from Ecuador, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on March 31 and placed in removal proceedings, DHS revealed Monday.
Corte-Corte, 38, allegedly led the young girl out the back of the Laundry Kingdom in Patchogue on March 28 while her unsuspecting mother was there, according to Suffolk County Police, who later found the tot at a nearby library.
Suffolk cops quickly arrested him on charges of second-degree kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child and for an outstanding warrant. A local judge freed him the following day on supervised release.
DHS, in a statement, fumed that after Corte-Corte’s initial arrest, “sanctuary politicians released him from jail back into the community.”
Corte-Corte illegally entered the country on at least three occasions in 2020, according to DHS, and was removed each time.
He illegally re-entered the US a fourth time at an unknown place and time before the alleged kidnapping attempt.
“This three-time deported criminal illegal alien, Carlos Corte-Corte, kidnapped an innocent four-year-old girl from a laundromat on Long Island. New York sanctuary politicians chose to release this kidnapper from jail to prey on more innocent children rather than cooperate with ICE law enforcement,” Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told The Post.
“Sanctuary politicians must stop putting politics above public safety,” she added. “This type of insanity leads to more crimes and more innocent victims.
“Thanks to our ICE law enforcement, this sicko is off our streets.”
Corte-Corte was on supervised release with a GPS monitor after being freed from jail – without bail – by Suffolk County District Judge James F. Leonick.
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney told The Post last Sunday that he disagreed with Leonick’s move to release the alleged child kidnapper.
“I think if you look at the facts of the case, clearly they’re concerning,” Tierney said.
Corte-Corte’s public defender had argued that the alleged kidnapping appeared to be a result of miscommunication.
“He thought the girl lived alone without parents,” Suffolk County legal aid attorney Alexandra Dyroff told the court.
“He took her to the library and told an employee there as such, but there was a language barrier. It seems to be a mistake,” the defense attorney claimed.