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Tuesday: Assault Police and West Phoenix

tuesday: He was arrested and charged Tuesday with molestation of a child, sexual abuse and aggravated assault, according to Toronto Star. Police say Fernando Magaz Negrete, an employee of a nonprofit organization that houses immigrant children separated from their parents at the border, kissed and inappropriately touched a 14-year-old girl staying at one of the group's facilities in west Phoenix. Fernando Magaz Negrete, a 32-year-old employee of federal contractor Southwest Key Programs, is accused of slipping into the girl's room late at night and forcibly kissing and inappropriately touching her, according to court documents. Maricopa County Sheriff's Office via the Associated Press A spokesperson for Southwest Key Programs, which operates dozens of shelters across the country for migrant children, said the employee has been terminated. That's what happened in this case. When a child tells us of inappropriate behaviour, we immediately call law enforcement and start an internal investigation as appropriate, the spokesperson, Jeff Eller, said in a statement to The Washington Post. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.