https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/12/30/deported-after-committing/When Mohammed Ali Mohammed was a young teenager living in Utah, he did what he describes as “very, very horrible things.” What any person would describe as very horrible things.
The Somali refugee, then 14, raped two women he had never met on back-to-back nights in Salt Lake City. He pleaded guilty and spent seven years in a juvenile detention center, working to rehabilitate himself. Along the way, he won allies who considered him a changed man.
A Utah judge decided he was worth taking a chance on, and instead of sending him to an adult prison as his victims wanted, she ordered him put on a strict probation. He was free … for a few minutes.
On the day he was released, he was arrested by immigration agents and sent to a detention center in Colorado. He spent a year there before a judge ordered recently that he be deported to Somalia — a place he’s never been.
Those who support Mohammed, like the volunteers he met while he was serving time at the Utah juvenile detention center, question whether it’s really justice to spend seven years trying to rehabilitate young Mohammed, only to deport him.
Mohammed approached a woman he had never met before on the night of Aug. 14. She was outside her Salt Lake City home with her dog when he came up behind her and held a 4-inch switchblade to her throat. He threatened to cut her if she made any noise.
He then took the woman behind her home and raped her as she screamed in pain.
The next night, Mohammed broke into another woman’s home. He looked through drawers in the house before raping her, according to court records. He then forced her to go to an ATM and withdraw $400 for him.
Police used surveillance footage from the ATM to identify Mohammed and arrest him. He would later tell investigators he wanted the money so he didn’t have to wear stained clothes on the first day of ninth grade.
A year later, when he was 15 years old, Mohammed pleaded guilty to rape, sexual assault and kidnapping charges in both juvenile and adult courts. This allowed for a “blended” sentence, a chance to receive therapy and services in the juvenile system while still a minor, but allowing the possibility for a judge to send him to adult prison if necessary when he turned 21.
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Mohammed who is interviewed via phone never apologizes for the crime he commits and would like to move to Europe since he is not allowed to return to the United States.
