PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. – A man who’s become a poster boy for Donald Trump’s claim about Mexican outlaws overrunning the Mexico border appeared in court and decline to enter a plea to a sexual assault charge. It wasn’t clear whether Alejandro Coronel Zarate, a Venezuelan, knew enough English to understand the charge. On his his behalf, Crawford County Judge Lukas Steiner entered a plea of not guilty. The judge also continued bail at $10,000. Coronel Zarate, age 26, is accused of sexual assault with force, child abuse, battery, strangulation, and disorderly conduct. The charges stemmed from a September incident in Prairie du Chien. A woman reported being choked and sexually assaulted. Also, she said, her daughter was injured.
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