Conservative pundit Ann Coulter used her Daily Caller column this week to charge Latino culture with "a cultural acceptance of child rape ... that doesn't exist in even the most dysfunctional American ghettoes."

In an attempt to defend Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump -- who had caused widespread backlash by claiming the Mexico brings drug dealers, criminals and rapists to the United States -- Coulter wrote that "the entire American media" ignore accounts of "the slew of child rapes by Hispanics (because) Democrats want the votes and businesses want the cheap labor."

"When it comes to child rape, the whole family gets involved. (They are family-oriented!)," Coulter said about Hispanics.

The pundit's argument is based on seven instances of circumstantial evidence she lists in her column, Mediaite noted. She describes cases of Latino immigrants who have taken part in child rape, oftentimes with their families turning a blind eye, and concludes that "these are cultures where women help the men rape kids."

The liberal online magazine Salon dubbed her comments a "racist tirade" that was "bad even by her standards."

Coulter is the author of "Adios, America," a 400-page manifesto in which she describes "a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their 'charity,' and greedy Republican businessmen ... profiting handsomely from mass immigration that's tearing the country apart," according to her publisher.

The conservative commentator over the past few years has often been accused of her aggressive attacks on Latino culture and her hostility toward immigrants, MediaMatters noted. Last year, for instance, Coulter claimed that undocumented migrants have killed "far more Americans than (the Islamist terror group) ISIS ever will" and that Hispanics' "ethnic" loyalty prevents them from ever voting for Republican candidates.

She has also called for a "moratorium" on "welfare state immigrants," the media watchdog reported.

"From around 1630 to 1966, immigrants sank or swam," Coulter alleged on her blog. "About a third of them couldn't make it in America and went home -- and those are the ones who weren't rejected right off the boat for being sick, crippled or idiots."