An illegal alien from El Salvador has been charged with murdering a young boy in California and also sexually assaulting two more, according to reports.
On Mar. 28, Oscar Hernandez, 13, reportedly hopped a train from San Fernando Valley to Lancaster to visit his soccer coach, 44-year-old Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino.
Two days later, the boy’s family – Honduran ‘migrants’ who arrived in the U.S. three years ago “in search of a better life” – reported him missing.
On Apr. 2, authorities found Hernandez’s body in a ditch off a road near Leo Carillo State Beach in Oxnard, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman explained during a press conference this week.
On Monday, Hochman announced Garcia-Aquino had been charged with “one count of murder with the special circumstance allegation of murder during the commission or attempted commission of lewd acts with a child, making him eligible for the death penalty.”
Garcia-Aquino faces a possible maximum sentence of death or life in prison without the possibility of parole. A decision on whether to seek the death penalty will be made at a later date.
— Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office (@LADAOffice) April 8, 2025
Amid an ongoing investigation, Garcia-Aquino was subsequently charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy at his residence in Sylmar in December of 2022, and also with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy in Palmdale in February of 2024.
UPDATE: Today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is announcing additional charges against Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, 44, for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenager at his then-home in Sylmar in December 2022. pic.twitter.com/pmtmvpOqJK
— Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office (@LADAOffice) April 8, 2025
Garcia-Aquino is a citizen of El Salvador who illegally entered the U.S. as a ‘gotaway’ at an unknown location and date, Department of Homeland Security sources told Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin.
UPDATE: This Salvadoran illegal alien soccer coach has now been charged by the LA DA w/ the sexual assault of a third teen boy in December 2022, a 14 y/o boy.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 9, 2025
A senior DHS source tells me he entered the U.S. as a gotaway at an unknown time & ICE has no prior encounters w/ him.… https://t.co/V1zZMXEPMl
The Salvadoran was a “youth travel soccer coach with the Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer Club in the Sylmar area working with different age divisions” who had “no reported criminal history,” according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna.
Authorities are asking any other victims of Garcia-Aquino to contact them.
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