A grieving Virginia mother is taking the fight directly to Fairfax County’s soft-on-crime political machine after her only daughter was brutally stabbed to death at a bus stop.Cheryl Minter is leading a campaign to recall Democrat Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano, arguing that his office repeatedly failed to hold her daughter’s accused killer accountable before the deadly February attack.Stephanie Minter, a 41-year-old mother from Fredericksburg, was found suffering from multiple stab wounds inside a bus shelter near Richmond Highway and Arlington Drive on February 23.Despite desperate lifesaving efforts, Stephanie was pronounced dead at the scene.Fairfax County police identified Abdul Jalloh, a 32-year-old Sierra Leone national with no fixed address, as the last person seen with Stephanie after the two exited a bus. Jalloh was arrested the following day and subsequently charged with second-degree murder. He remains jailed without bond, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.The Gateway Pundit previously reported that the Department of Homeland Security identified Jalloh as an illegal alien who entered the United States in 2012 and accumulated more than 30 arrests.His criminal history reportedly includes charges involving rape, malicious wounding, assault, identity theft, drug possession, trespassing, and multiple alleged stabbings.An immigration detainer was lodged against Jalloh in 2020, and an immigration judge reportedly ordered his removal to any country other than Sierra Leone.Yet he remained in the United States and on the streets.According to FOX 5 DC, prosecutors dropped many of the cases against Jalloh. In 2023, a malicious-wounding charge was dropped after prosecutors said they could not secure the victim’s participation. Less than a month later, an aggravated-malicious-wounding charge was reduced, and Jalloh ultimately served seven months of a two-year sentence.Not all of Jalloh’s previous cases occurred under Descano. A 2018 forcible-rape charge, for example, was dropped under Descano’s predecessor. Descano’s office has also said it convicted Jalloh in a separate 2023 malicious-wounding case and later sought to have him detained and his probation revoked.But 7News reported that Fairfax County police warned Descano’s office in writing at least three times that Jalloh could eventually kill someone.Now Stephanie is dead, and her mother is demanding accountability.“Thirty times the system had a chance to stop him. Thirty times,” Cheryl told Fox News Digital.“This was not an unavoidable tragedy,” she added. “It was the predictable consequence of decisions made by Descano.”Cheryl’s recall campaign has already collected more than 12,000 signatures and is working toward approximately 30,000. The public petition supporting the effort to recall Descano can be found here.Under Virginia law, organizers must collect valid signatures from registered voters equal to 10 percent of the votes cast in the previous election. The petitioners must then file allegations establishing legal grounds for removal and prove those grounds before a circuit court judge.In other words, gathering the signatures does not automatically trigger a traditional recall election, but it could force Descano to answer for his record in court.Descano, whose campaigns received substantial backing from George Soros’ Justice and Public Safety PAC, has defended his policies as fair and lawful.His office told Fox News that it is currently prosecuting Jalloh for Stephanie’s murder. Jalloh was recently indicted, and his trial is reportedly scheduled for January 2027.The Gateway Pundit reported in May that Descano was called to testify before a House Judiciary subcommittee examining the consequences of Fairfax County’s sanctuary policies.Descano insisted that his office does not provide “sanctuary or safe harbor” to illegal immigrants and claimed it routinely prosecutes immigrants who commit crimes.The Trump Justice Department also opened a civil-rights investigation into Descano’s plea-bargaining, charging, and sentencing policies. Investigators are examining allegations that his office offered preferential treatment to illegal-alien defendants. The department emphasized that it had not yet reached any conclusions.For Cheryl Minter, however, this is not an abstract policy dispute.It is about a daughter she will never see again, and a criminal-justice system that had dozens of opportunities to prevent the nightmare her family is now living.“Stephanie was my world. She was my only daughter,” Cheryl said.Now this grieving mother is fighting to ensure another Fairfax County family does not pay the same unbearable price.The public petition supporting the effort to recall Descano can be found here.A Soros-backed prosecutor in Fairfax County is facing recall effort after a grieving mother says he let an illegal immigrant with 30 prior arrests walk free — before the man allegedly stabbed her daughter to death at a bus stop.Cheryl Minter has gathered more than 12,000… pic.twitter.com/hWuXEVZH5B— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) August 27, 2026The post ANGEL MOM FIGHTS BACK: Grieving Virginia Mom Leads Recall of Soros-Backed Prosecutor Steve Descano After Illegal Alien with 30+ Arrests Is Charged in Daughter’s Bus-Stop Murder appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.