An alarming spike in sexual abuse by CBP agents has been recorded, and officials are scurrying to find out why, the Daily Mail reports.
The agency’s former head of internal affairs, James Tomsheck, who handled sexual assault investigations, said there was a “spike” of more than 35 cases involving agents between 2012 and 2014.
Tomsheck believes the increase was caused by the lack of a polygraph tests administered to nearly 15,000 new recruits between 2006 and 2012.
“A problem that I believed was a significant and serious problem was perhaps even worse than I thought it was,” Tomsheck said. “I believe they were persons who had likely offended before but their acts have gone undetected.”
In one case, a Border Patrol agent is accused of brutally raping an undocumented immigrant and her two daughters near the border fence before killing himself.
