Jennifer Vasquez: Victim or Enabler?
Here is where the legal questions sharpen their teeth.
This was not the first protective order Jennifer filed. It was not the first time she claimed he assaulted her. It was not the first time he allegedly endangered her children. And yet, after marrying a known gang member behind bars, she remained in the relationship. She left her children with an 11-year-old babysitter, according to her ex, Edwin Trejo Ramos—who filed a 2018 emergency custody petition citing her suicide attempt, erratic behavior, and gang affiliations.
“She is dating a gang member,” Ramos explicitly stated in his petition for an emergency custody hearing, which was ultimately denied and dismissed in early 2019 on jurisdictional grounds.
Although the petition did not name Abrego Garcia directly, the timeline of Sura’s relationship with the Salvadoran national, strongly suggests he was the gang member in question.
Can she still be viewed as an unwitting victim?
If a parent, repeatedly warned by courts and battered by her own experience, still allows a known abuser to reenter the home—does her duty to her children not rise to the level of recklessness?
Does her silence not veer into complicity?
