Makayla Rene Settles was 18 years old with a dream. She moved to California to live with her biological father and attend college. Two days later, he got her drunk and sexually assaulted her for four hours.
She did everything right. She called for help. She went to the hospital that same night. She gave her statement to police. A rape kit was performed and his DNA was found inside of his own daughter. He was arrested that same night.
Five months later, Makayla died by suicide. She could not carry the weight of what he did to her.
Stephen Vincent Chavez is out on bail. His next court date is April 21st at the Ventura County Courthouse, Courtroom 14 at 8:30 AM.
The Ventura County DA has signaled this case may not move forward because Makayla is no longer here to testify. Her statements are on record. The DNA is on record. Her family is demanding justice.
Show up for Makayla. Contact the Ventura County DA Eric Nasarenko and demand this case goes to trial.
📍 Ventura County Courthouse
📅 April 21, 2026 | 8:30 AM | Courtroom 14
🎥: @foxla
Every celebrity in Hollywood has been crashing out over Timothée Chalamet’s comments about ballet and opera, but all of a sudden none of them can find their voice to talk about this.
One of the reasons they hate Zohran paying folks to shovel snow is you can’t hand your friend a lucrative snow shoveling contract if the state just pays people to work.
US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: https://t.co/dNBRWAiv0b
ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
Linda Davis was killed by ICE today. A Black woman, a beloved teacher, killed by ICE in Savannah, Georgia. https://t.co/g20AHJpF8V
A 13 year old girl locked in an ICE camp slit her wrists and tried to kill herself.
The conditions are so atrocious that little children are choosing to attempt to end their lives.
If this doesn’t outrage you, nothing will.
Let. Them. Out.
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“He’s not the same.”
The father of Liam Conejo Ramos says his 5-year-old continues to suffer after ICE detention.
Liam is now in hiding with his family.
He’s no longer going to school.
His father cites:
• a bomb threat at Liam’s former elementary school
• ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in
• learning that DHS is seeking to end the family’s asylum claims
“The truth is, he’s not the same boy he was before. Ever since he went in there, he’s suffered psychological trauma; he’s very scared,” his father said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy.’”
When will family detention end?
Family detention isn’t required by law.
It exists because detention is profitable.
No child should come out of government custody afraid to sleep at night. #ReformICE #DemsUnited
tomorrow i’m going to a women’s sports bar here in nyc that is doing a heated rivalry marathon during the super bowl. they’ll be pausing the marathon briefly to stream bad bunny perform at the halftime show in honor of ilya rozanov. this is as god intended.
The mother of the 5-year-old taken into ICE custody reports that the child is getting sick due to the quality of the food at the facility:
“He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.”
These children are screaming “Let us out”.
Liam Ramos, the five year old in the cute blue hat who was being “protected” by ICE…. Is inside this facility.
Some children have been locked up here for 8 months.
Don’t look away.
You can’t detain a 5 year old child.
If a masked man grabs a kid off the street and puts him in an unmarked car… that’s kidnapping.
If that child is then sent to another state? That’s trafficking.
Language matters here.
What happened to Liam Ramos should outrage us all.
Look at his little shirt buttoned up for picture day. This child is loved by a family and he deserves to be with them not locked up in concentration camp in Texas
if you can afford to take PTO or sick leave, especially if you have a 6 figure white collar job, join them in solidarity! the sacrifices you refuse to make now will be exponentially taken from you in the future