Illegal Immigrant Who Groped High School Girls Sentenced To 360 Days Despite 9 Convictions

An illegal immigrant convicted of groping multiple female students at a Virginia high school was sentenced Tuesday to just 360 days behind bars and two years of probation, according to 7News.

Israel Christopher Flores-Ortiz, 18, of El Salvador, was found guilty earlier this month of nine counts of assault after roughly a dozen girls accused him of groping them in school hallways, including placing his hands between their legs and touching their private areas, the outlet reported. He is a junior at Fairfax High School.

He has already served roughly half of his jail sentence, leaving about 140 days remaining, though the exact time will depend on credit for time served, according to 7News.

After his conviction, one of his victims, a ninth-grade girl, said the assault left her with new fears.

“Now I have to make sure and look around extra to see who’s around me and make sure that nobody touches me that way again,” she told 7News at the time.

One victim’s mother said the assaults “had been occurring for several months.”

“It was all perpetrated by a single individual who is a stranger to the girls,” she previously told 7News. “He just sneakily walked up behind them and put his hand in between their legs. It was not just a butt smack or a butt grab. It was a groping of a private area.”

Flores-Ortiz crossed the border illegally in 2024 and was subsequently released into the United States under the Biden administration’s catch-and-release policy, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

After his latest arrest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer requesting that local authorities transfer him to their custody in pursuit of his deportation. Following Flores-Ortiz’s conviction, the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office told The Daily Wire that “ICE has been notified of Ortiz’s location at the ADC [Adult Detention Center], and they are able to execute their detainer by responding to the ADC and taking Ortiz into custody once his time sentence is completed and he has been ordered released.”

“The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office does not obstruct or prevent ICE from acting on their civil detainers,” the sheriff’s office said.

The sheriff’s office didn’t respond to a follow-up question about whether they would give ICE advance notice of Flores-Ortiz’s eventual release.

The latest case comes amid a string of violent crimes allegedly perpetrated by illegal immigrants in Virginia.

Last week, a Guatemalan illegal immigrant, Luzvin Orvando Garcia Moran, 28, allegedly attempted to rape a woman as she was waiting for her rideshare in Arlington, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday.

There have also been three murders tied to illegal immigrant offenders in 2026 in Fairfax County, accounting for 75% of the area’s killings this year.

The Trump administration has responded by calling on Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger to keep the offenders locked up.

Since entering office, Spanberger has signaled that ICE detainers aren’t enough for local authorities to hand inmates over to ICE. She also ended an agreement allowing state law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration agents.