Tuesday’s White House press briefing featured a question from WTTG Fox 5’s Ronica Cleary that went against the liberal media’s narratives of the day, asking press secretary Sean Spicer about the alleged brutal rape of a high school student outside Washington D.C. by an illegal immigrant.

As far as we can tell, no network or cable news coverage has been given to the rape that occurred last week at Rockville High School in Montgomery County, Maryland since it’s an inconvenient story for their liberal narrative (see Kate Steinele, Sarah Root, Drew Rosenberg, etc.).

Just under 20 minutes in, WTTG’s Cleary asked Spicer for comment on the horrifying crime and if school districts should examine policies about admitting illegal immigrants:

Recently, a 14-year-old girl — she was raped in the boy's bathroom of her high school. A 17 and 18-year-old boy have been charged, one of the boys, you know, unlawfully entered the country, both have outstanding orders with ICE. So, here’s my first question about it. Currently, schools are prohibited from denying access to public education based on immigration status. Does the President hear a story like that and think that it should be change or be addressed in a future executive order?

Spicer began by stating how “this is a tragic event” that’s “horrendous and horrible and disgusting what this young woman in Rockville went through.”

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“I can't possibly imagine, so first of all, let's remember the human side of this that this is a tragic event that no child, no person, no parent should ever have to deal with. School should be a place where a parent puts their child on a bus or drops them off or sees them off and knows that they're safe,” he added.

Turning shortly thereafter to the policy, he ruled that such a “troubling” crime “is not who we are as a country”:

I think that it is cause for concern, I think the city should look at its policies and I think that this is something that authorities are going to have to look at. I think from an immigration standpoint, clearly to see somebody — there are so many facets of this case that deserve question. Why was there — I think he was 17 or 18 years old — 18, thank you and how does that person get put into the ninth grade? Why was there — I mean, there so many issues that come up in this case. I will leave it to authorities to get through, but we are in the early stages and there's a lot to get addressed with respect to this case in particular.

Cleary followed up by invoking a Trump administration initiative for Americans who have been victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants: “I hear about it being a state issue, let's talk about something that the President has implemented and introduced VOICE. Is VOICE — Victims Of Immigration Crime Enforcement — is that enough?”

Spicer responded that one such “reason the President has made illegal immigration and crack down such a big deal is because of tragedies like this” and why President Trump’s “passionate about this because people are victims of these crimes in terms of them they're victims the economic piece, there’s a national security piece, but immigration plays its toll on our people if it’s not done legally.”

The President commented generally on these types of crimes during a Monday rally in Kentucky. In a piece for our sister site CNSNews.com, Craig Bannister ran this quote from Trump:

During the campaign, as I've traveled all across this great country, I met with many American families whose loved ones, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, were viciously killed by illegal immigrants. Incredible. Incredible. These amazing American lives were stolen because our government refused to enforce our already existing laws. “These American victims and their families were ignored by the media. The media doesn't want to talk about it. They don't want to talk about it.

At the end of the day, such censorship of this story appears to be taking hold once again in the minds of the liberal media. If it eventually is covered, who knows how they’ll react and possibly chalk it up as a local crime story like they did with Kermit Gosnell.

Here’s the relevant portion of the transcript from March 21's White House Press Briefing: