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Documents reveal second protective order filed by wife against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Documents reveal second protective order filed by wife against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Documents reveal second protective order filed by wife against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Published on: 05/02/2025

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Another protective order filed against Kilmar Abrego Garcia has surfaced, outlining alleged domestic violence as the legal situation remains at an apparent standstill.

Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador from Maryland in March. The Trump Administration originally said in court documents the deportation was done in error, though Abrego Garcia was in the United States illegally.

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump Administration to “facilitate” his return, though that has yet to happen. President Trump and others in his administration maintain they believe Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang.

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The 2020 protective order was filed by Jennifer Vasquez, Abrego Garcia’s wife on August 3. She said Abrego Garcia verbally abused, kicked, slapped, and shoved her.

Abrego Garcia took her phone and locked her out of the house with her three kids inside, according to the handwritten court documents filed by Vasquez. She called the police, and when she was able to get inside, she told the court he slapped her.

Police came and he acted violent broke my phone in front of the officer,” she wrote in the protective order that was filed in District Court. This is not the first timeI have photos of all the bruises his [sic] left on my body.

She told the court she and her kids were afraid, noting that Abrego Garcia had kicked and slapped her before. She also said she had a recording of Abrego Garcia saying “that even if he kills me, no one can do anything to him.”

About a week later, on Aug. 11, Vasquez filed to rescind the protective order, telling the court that the son she shares with Abrego Garcia was celebrating his first birthday, and that Abrego Garcia has agreed to continue counseling.

“If not, his [sic] willing to sign divorce papers,” Vasquez told the court.

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The 2020 protective order request was filed a year prior to the 2021 order that’s already been uncovered. In documents obtained by FOX45 News, Vasquez claimed Abrego Garcia punched and scratched her, leaving her bleeding. Abrego Garcia later ripped her shorts and shirt, according to the 2021 petition.

In that filing, Vasquez said Abrego Garcia hit her in August 2020 and left her with “a purple eye.” In November 2020, Vasquez Sura claimed he hit her with his work boot. Vasquez dropped the 2021 order, later stating the two worked out their differences.

“We have now found two petitions for protection against him, in addition to the fact that he entered the country illegally and is a confirmed member of MS-13. Our country is safer with him gone,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

When news first surfaced about the 2021 protective order, Vasquez said she survived domestic violence in a previous relationship, and field for the protective orders “out of caution.”

“We were able to work through this situation privately as a family, including by going to counseling,” her statement said. “Our marriage only grew stronger in the years that followed. No one is perfect, and no marriage is perfect.”

That is not a justification for ICE's action of abducting him and deporting him to a country where he was supposed to be protected from deportation. Kilmar has always been a loving partner and father, and I will continue to stand by him and demand justice for him, Vasquez statement continued.

During an Oval Office interview with ABC News, President Donald Trump said he could call the Salvadorian President and discuss Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States, but said hasn’t happened. Based on President Trump’s views of Abrego Garcia, that’s no expected.

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“If he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that,” President Trump said during the interview with ABC News’ Terry Moran. “This is an MS-13 gang member, a tough cookie, been in lots of skirmishes, beat the hell out of his wife and his wife is petrified to even talk about him. He’s not some innocent man from Maryland.”

Tuesday, the federal judge in Maryland denied the Trump Administration’s request to extend the pause in expedited discovery in the case and said the process will resume Monday.

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News Source : https://wfxl.com/news/nation-world/documents-reveal-second-protective-order-filed-by-wife-against-kilmar-abrego-garcia

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