Notorious Arizona border vigilante can personally cross-examine little girls he is accused of molest

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Chris Simcox

Notorious Arizona border vigilante can personally cross-examine little girls he is accused of molesting
Bethania Palma Markus
08 Jul 2015 at 11:47 ET

An Arizona minuteman leader accused of molesting two little girls could soon personally cross-examine the 7-and-8 year olds because a judge ruled their mothers were not qualified to say whether it would traumatize them.

Chris Simcox is representing himself in an upcoming trial in which he is accused of child molestation, the Arizona Republic reports. On Tuesday, he cross-examined the accusers’ mothers. While Judge Jose Padilla has cleared the way for Simcox to next confront the children, the prosecutor and victims’ advocates are trying to stop it from happening.

Padilla ruled in April that Simcox has the right to question the children, prompting attorney Jack Wilenchik to file an emergency motion with the state supreme court, according to local station AZFamily.

“There can’t be any more important right for a victim, especially a child victim, than not to be cross-examined by their own molester,” Wilenchik said. “If we’re not protecting kids from that, then what’s the Victims’ Bill of Rights for?”