The spouse of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran migrant whose wrongful expulsion to El Salvador goes to the facility of a lawful fight with the Trump management, had a momentary order of defense versus him in 2021 in which she mentioned being put, struck with a things, and being apprehended versus her will, according to court papers gotten by ABC Information.
In a prolonged declaration within an application for defense “from residential physical violence,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura stated an occurrence on May 4, 2021, in which she declares that Abrego Garcia “punched and damaged her eye,” triggering her to hemorrhage.
That very same day, Vasquez Sura stated that when she informed Abrego Garcia that she required to visit a shop, he “snapped, began shouting once again to the factor that he tore [her] shorts and tee shirt off.”
” And I went to the shower room, he [ran] behind me and got me by my arm,” Vasquez Sura stated. “I have marks on my left arm also.”
” Now I hesitate to be near to him,” Vasquez Sura included. “I have several photos/videos of just how [violent] he can be.”
Vasquez Sura acquired a momentary safety order versus Abrego Garcia in May of 2021, according to state court documents in Maryland. The order called for that Abrego Garcia have no call with Vasquez Sura, and to steer clear of from their shared home, the documents reveal.
In a declaration launched to ABC Information Wednesday with her lawyer, Vasquez Sura– that has actually been singing in her assistance of Abrego Garcia throughout his imprisonment in El Salvador– stated, “After enduring residential physical violence in a previous partnership, I acted out of care after an argument with Kilmar by looking for a safety order in situation points rose.”
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, spouse of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, talks throughout an interview on the day of a hearing in case pertaining to Kilmar Abrego Garcia outside United State Area Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, April 15, 2025.
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” We had the ability to overcome this circumstance independently as a family members, consisting of by mosting likely to therapy,” Vasquez Sura stated. “Kilmar has actually constantly been a caring companion and papa, and I will certainly remain to wait him and require justice for him.”
Abrego Garcia, that the Trump management declares belongs to the criminal gang MS-13, is entering his 2nd month in an El Salvador mega-prison after he was deported there on March 15 regardless of being released a 2019 court order preventing his expulsion to his home nation because of the worry of mistreatment.
He had actually been residing in Maryland with Vasquez Sura, their 5-year-old kid, and 2 step-children. Vasquez Sura has actually rejected that he is connected with MS-13.
In the 2021 papers gotten by ABC Information, Vasquez Sura kept in mind 2 previous occurrences, declaring that in 2020, Abrego Garcia struck her with his job boot which in August 2020, he struck her in the eye.
The safety order was disregarded a month after it was released, on June 17, 2021, after Vasquez Sura stopped working to show up in court, according to an authorized order of termination by a court.
ABC Information likewise acquired papers sent to a Maryland court in August 2018 by a male that declared to be the papa of 2 of Vasquez Sura’s kids. In a five-page activity for an emergency situation hearing, he stated he was afraid for the kids’s lives, partly, “due to the fact that she is dating a gang participant and tried self-harm,” the documents state.
The guy did not consist of the name of the private he declared is a gang participant. It is not recognized if he was describing Abrego Garcia.
The initials of his kids’s names, provided in a guardianship issue, match the ones that Vasquez Sura provided for her youngsters in an affirmation sent in Abrego Garcia’s situation.
He shows up to have actually left some areas of the issue incomplete, including what wardship terms he was asking for. Nevertheless, in the declaring he stated he would certainly permit Vasquez Sura to check out the kids on the problem that “we both settle on the moment and day.”
According to court papers dated January 18, 2019, the situation was disregarded due to the fact that Vasquez Sura had not been offered.
Vasquez Sura’s lawyers did not react to an ask for talk about papers entailing her ex lover.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran traveler in this handout picture gotten by Reuters on April 9, 2025.
Abrego Garcia Household through Reuters
On Tuesday, a government court got federal government authorities to indicate under vow due to the fact that, she stated, they had actually “not done anything to help in Abrego Garcia’s launch from wardship and go back to the USA,” regardless of the High court guiding the Trump management to “assist in” Abrego Garcia’s launch from wardship in El Salvador.
The Division of Homeland Safety And Security, in a social networks article Wednesday, shared a 2021 court document from Abrego Garcia’s safety order situation and stated in the article that he “was not the upstanding ‘Maryland Male’ the media has actually depicted him as.”
