Day: February 9, 2025

This is part 3 of our ongoing series on Judge Kristin S. Escalante and Adriana Duarte

Illegal Alien Wins $6.7 Million Judgment Against No-Kill Animal Sanctuary – Uses Fake Social Security Number

How an Illegal Alien Endangered the World’s Largest No-Kill Care-For-Life Sanctuary

With the ongoing focus on illegal immigration, I would like to report the story of one illegal, Adriana Duarte Valentines, from Lancaster, CA.

Although illegal, and though she committed fraud to get employment, Duarte won a judgment for $6.7 million against D.E.L.T.A. Rescue—short for Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals—the world’s largest “no-kill, care-for-life” animal sanctuary.

It is poetic injustice: The criminal conduct of Duarte has been rewarded by the American legal system, and in so doing, it has punished one of the most heralded, pioneering, and compassionate no-kill animal sanctuaries in the United States.

Duarter’s legal achievement was made possible by the support of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kristin S. Escalante, who used her courtroom to advocate for undocumented immigrants getting preferences over Americans. 

A Trail of Deception

Adriana Duarte Valentines entered the United States 22 years ago illegally. She came from Mexico with her husband, Raul Lopez, and her son, Raul Jr. – who also entered illegally.

While in the US, Lopez and Duarte had two more kids. In addition, Duarte also had another child with a lover, which caused her husband to erupt in jealous fury, and because he is handy with a knife, to leave reportedly a scar on Duarte’s person.

Duarte, who never paid taxes and always worked under the table, enjoyed the hospitality of taxpayers who paid the hospital bills for the birth of all three of her US-born children, two with her husband and the one with her lover.

Ironically, it was the birth of her lover’s child that allowed Duarte to sue DELTA Rescue with the claim that the not-for-profit did not do enough to accommodate her when she was pregnant and won a $6.7 million judgment, as mentioned above, with the help of Judge Kristin Escalante.

Duarte Gets off to a False Start at DELTA

It began in June 2017, when Duarte secured a $15-per-hour job as a caretaker of cats at DELTA’s 115-acre mountaintop sanctuary in Acton, California.

She told the DELTA she was a U.S. citizen and provided a fake Social Security number. She impressed the management by telling them that she had worked for years in rural California as an agricultural worker harvesting lettuce – a noble calling, one deeply connected to the earth and indicative of a hard worker.

DELTA management, which employs 35 workers, most of whom are Mexican, probably should have but did not verify her past employment in the lettuce fields, or they would have discovered that she never picked a head of lettuce in her life.

Capitalizing on Opportunities

Nevertheless, Duarte saw opportunity everywhere at DELTA. She observed that the management of the sanctuary, which rescues dogs and cats abandoned in the forest and desert, had a heartfelt mission to protect animals. Because of that, she observed that the management had a lot of trust with its workers, believing or projecting that they felt the same way about animals.

She also observed that nobody would notice if she put a bag or two of cat food in her truck.

If anybody saw it, she could explain she was taking it offsite to the DELTA cattery on the road leading off the sanctuary to her house.

If perhaps she failed to drop the giant bags of cat food at the Trails End cattery but took it home where she bred cats, the only one who would notice was her husband, Raul Lopez. He was not likely to object.

Although DELTA assigned Duarte to the catteries, where she fed the lovely cats, Duarte also observed there was dog food—premium dry and canned—for the hundreds of dogs at DELTA.

Since no one checked what she had in her truck, she began transporting cat and dog food, janitorial supplies, and paper goods offsite.

Supporting the Local Economy

Sources familiar with Duarte told Frank Report that while she stole over $300,000 worth of supplies during the two and a half years she worked at DELTA, she did not get the full amount as a profit.

Reports indicate Duarte became a supplier of dog food—canned and dry—to Mexicans who raise and train pit bulls for fighting. These men are notoriously cheap and rarely paid Duarte even 50 percent of the retail value for the dog food she stole.

On the one hand, Duarte stole premium dog food, both dry and canned, from DELTA, but she did not get as much as she could have if she had sold her goods to a typical fence. On the other hand, Duarte showed initiative by supplementing her $15-per-hour wages by stealing enough to double or triple her pay.

She also had the good feeling inside that she was helping dog fighters—something DELTA would never condone.

Studies show well-fed pit bulls fight better on a mix of dry and canned food than on dry food alone. But often, dog fighters won’t spend the extra dollars for canned food because they are cheap. Duarte helped grow the dog-fighting business in the Los Angeles area.

To load up her truck and steal as much as possible, it behooved her to put in as many hours as she could – including after the sanctuary closed. She soon attracted the attention of the overnight horse caretaker, Jorge Avalos, who lived onsite in a trailer.

A Romantic Interlude

Duarte began to visit Avalos in his trailer. She could log many extra hours by slipping into his trailer when no one was looking (charging DELTA for those hours) – and if the cats went without care for a few hours now and then, they would survive.

Passion grew, and beneath the stars in an animal sanctuary on a hill, Duarte surrendered her marital chastity to the horse caretaker.

She found it easier than anticipated, leading some to speculate that she had surrendered it more than once.

It was a matter of considerable discussion among the employees of DELTA if she hadn’t also surrendered her marital chastity to the night watchman and another worker, which occasioned a certain degree of jealousy from their respective spouse and girlfriend, one of whom was Duarte’s sister, who stopped speaking with her sister for reasons which are unclear.

But Duarte enjoyed the horse caretaker, Jorge Avalos, the best of all. Perhaps it was because, unlike the others with whom she offered her amorous bounty, Avalos had his own trailer where she could relax, unbend, unwind, and bill DELTA for the time.

Avalos was a gentle-speaking man who enjoyed her full-figured appearance and, unlike others, did not find her, dressed in speedos with her belly flowing over the elastic waistband, as anything less than gorgeous.

The Tipping Point

In the spring of 2019, Duarte was on the verge of getting everything she came to America to get. Sure, she had some pressures. But whose life is without such challenges?

She had to hide her ever-increasing volume of stealing from DELTA, and she had to hide her lover from her husband, who she knew would have the temperament of many provincial men and react with reckless jealousy.

She explained to her husband that she needed to stay late to steal more from DELTA and bill more hours, which was true. He did not suspect a thing at first.

Then, it all fell apart when something happened that she could not hide.

To be continued…

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