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Biden Released Him. New York Freed Him. A 15-Year-Old Girl in Baltimore Paid the Price.

A fifteen-year-old girl ran barefoot and naked through a Baltimore neighborhood on the night of October 22, bleeding from stab wounds to her chest, ear, shoulder, back, and ribs. One of her lungs had collapsed. She had just beaten a twenty-three-year-old man with a fire extinguisher to escape the basement where he'd dragged her, stripped her, and tried to kill her.

She found help on Belle Avenue, roughly a mile from the house. The man she escaped from, Abubakarr Barrie, had been in federal custody three years earlier. The Biden administration let him go.

Barrie, a Sierra Leone national, crossed illegally into Arizona in December 2023 and was encountered by U.S. Border Patrol. He was processed and released into the country under the Biden administration's catch-and-release protocols. He made his way to New York, where in July 2026 the NYPD arrested him on a charge of third-degree possession of a forged instrument — a fake document. ICE placed a detainer requesting New York hold him for transfer.

New York didn't honor it. Sanctuary policy. They released him back onto the street.

Three months later, according to charging documents, Barrie was operating an unlicensed taxi — a "hack" — in Baltimore. The fifteen-year-old girl got in near Druid Hill Park on McCulloh Street, asking to be taken to a carry-out restaurant called PlattaKing on Belair Road in northeast Baltimore. When she realized Barrie was driving the opposite direction and confronted him, prosecutors say he put her in a headlock while still behind the wheel.

He drove her to 3705 Garrison Boulevard in northwest Baltimore, where he'd been renting a basement room. Prosecutors say he forced her out of the car, pushed her down the steps, ordered her to put down her phone and not scream, ripped off her clothes, and stabbed her multiple times.

She fought. She clawed and scratched at Barrie until she got her hands on a fire extinguisher and swung it. Then she ran — no shoes, no clothes, stab wounds still open — until she found someone who called the police. Officers recovered her phone, which tracked directly to Barrie's location.

Surveillance footage from the property, now circulating widely, shows the girl bolting from the home at approximately 8:52 p.m. The homeowner, who was out of the country, confirmed Barrie had been renting the basement and had returned to the property one or two months earlier after spending time in New York.

Barrie now faces nine charges: attempted first-degree murder, kidnapping, assault, and false imprisonment among them. He is being held without bail. ICE has lodged a new detainer, this time urging Baltimore authorities not to release him.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin put it plainly: "This tragedy would never have happened were it not for the multiple failures of sanctuary policies."

Multiple failures. That framing is generous. Every single checkpoint in the system had a chance to prevent what happened on October 22. Border Patrol encountered Barrie in Arizona — and the Biden administration released him. The NYPD arrested him in New York on a forgery charge — and sanctuary policy sent him back out. ICE filed a detainer — and New York ignored it.

The people who wrote those sanctuary policies will call this an isolated incident. They always do. The girl with the collapsed lung on Belle Avenue is the one who had to live inside their policy experiment.

Barrie's next court date is scheduled for late November. He sits in a cell without bail. The ICE detainer is active. Whether Baltimore honors it is now the only remaining question in a chain of failures that stretches from the Arizona border to a basement in northwest Baltimore.

Three years. Three cities. Three chances to stop him. A fifteen-year-old girl with a fire extinguisher did what the federal government wouldn't.

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