The man charged with throwing a rock at a school bus earlier this month, fracturing the skull of an 8-year-old girl, is an illegal immigrant who had been shielded from deportation by New Jersey’s laws despite a criminal record that stretches over 20 years.
Hernando Garcia-Morales, 40, was charged in the Jan. 7 incident, in which a bus on the New Jersey Turnpike in Teaneck Township was hit with a baseball-size rock, according to the New York Post. The rock struck the third-grader on a field trip with the Yeshivat Noam Jewish day school in Paramus, sending her to a hospital.
Garcia-Morales told police the bus “was the devil or his enemy” when he was arrested on Jan. 9, the newspaper reported.
Since his arrest,
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