Michael Hethmon, longtime FAIR attorney, Charged with Child Sex Abuse
Michael Hethmon, a for the legal arm of the anti-immigrant hate group (FAIR), with child sex abuse. Hethmon is also running for a Maryland delegate seat that would represent a part of Prince George鈥檚 County, Md.
According to WUSA9, court records show that the mother of the girl who reported the abuse is a nurse practitioner helping Hethmon care for his elderly father. Investigators claim Hethmon was with the 8-year-old outside a barn on his property when he offered to brush hay off her. The child alleged Hethmon put his hands inside her pants and touched her sexually. Hethmon then attempted to put the victim鈥檚 hand inside his pants, court records say.
He鈥檚 currently free on bail.
Hethmon to FAIR鈥檚 legal arm, Immigration Reform Law Institute, and its efforts to pass harsh anti-immigrant legislation in various states and localities. Hethmon has cynically said in the past that he didn鈥檛 care if these laws turned out to be unconstitutional or if fighting for them in the courts were to be financially disastrous for states and localities, .
鈥淪ink or swim, these new laws are forcing Congress to confront the need for enforcement-based reform,鈥� he wrote in a 2010 op-ed for CNN. More important is that they 鈥減rovoke sustainable immigration reform.鈥� At another time, Hethmon called the laws 鈥渇ield tests鈥濃�攅xperiments aimed at testing the legality of various approaches to immigration.
Hethmon did not respond to requests for comment.
