A former Massachusetts shelter director-turned-whistleblower is looking the sentencing of yet one more unlawful alien for raping a baby at a taxpayer-funded shelter additional proof of a “complete authorities failure” within the sanctuary state.
Haitian unlawful allien Cory Alvarez, 27, was discovered responsible of aggravated rape of a kid at a migrant shelter in Rockland, Massachusetts, and sentenced to 10 to 12 years in jail, in line with NBC 10 Boston.
Alvarez was arrested by Rockland police in 2024 on suspicion of sexual assault on a 15-year-old feminine sufferer. Each Alvarez and the sufferer have been dwelling at a state-run shelter at a Consolation Inn.
Alvarez was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in August.
In response to the company, he entered the nation lawfully in 2023 however violated the phrases of his admittance, which means he was current within the nation illegally.
In response, Fetherston, who ran an identical migrant shelter in Marlborough, Massachusetts, from 2023 to 2024, stated Alvarez's sentencing “exposes a a lot greater downside.”
“Name it what you'll, however that is complete authorities failure,” he stated. “You will have documented instances now of those women being assaulted in shelters run with taxpayer {dollars}. Nobody on the prime, together with Governor Maura Healey, is taking any of the duty.”
Fetherston has beforehand blown the whistle on “rampant” sexual abuse of youngsters happening within the Massachusetts-run shelter system.
Talking with Fox Information Digital in February, he detailed the case of one other Haitian unlawful alien, Ronald Joseph, who raped and impregnated his personal 14-year-old daughter on the Marlborough shelter.
Fetherston stated that when he and the authorities confronted Joseph concerning the rape, he turned agitated and threatened him.
Regardless of the gravity of the crime, Fetherston stated he was instructed to order Joseph a experience to a different state-run shelter.
Joseph was not arrested till months later. He has since been sentenced to 12 to fifteen years in jail for aggravated rape of a kid.
Fetherston stated that these two instances should not remoted however fairly half of a bigger disturbing sample of kid sexual abuse that has largely gone unpunished.
“The state didn't defend these youngsters, and whenever you don't defend youngsters, you haven't any ethical authority to run these packages,” he stated, including, “Should you're not going to guard youngsters, you shouldn't be in workplace.”
Earlier this 12 months, a Healey spokesperson instructed the Boston Herald that the governor “inherited a catastrophe of a shelter system” and that Healey “is the one who took motion to implement a size of keep restrict, mandate felony background checks, require residents to show Massachusetts residency and lawful immigration standing, and get households out of resorts.”
Fetherston stated that regardless of claims that shelter residents had all been vetted via felony background checks, “not a single certainly one of these individuals was vetted” and “no person is aware of who they're.”
“The governor opened up the doorways extensive open and didn't vet anyone, and that's on her,” he stated.
He additionally famous that “98 % of the those who I used to be coping with have been actually good individuals they usually have been simply right here to make a greater life for themselves. However the 2% that weren't have been a number of the worst individuals I've ever seen.”
He emphasised that “all of those shelters are paid for with taxpayer {dollars}.”
“The taxpayers want to comprehend that basically, and horribly, you're funding these rapes and assaults of little women,” he stated, including, “No person needs that.”
In August, Healey ordered the closure of the state's shelter system and made a number of the residents eligible to obtain no less than $30,000 in state housing help over a two-year interval.
Since then, Fetherston stated that native police have instructed him there was an uptick in auto accidents.
He additionally stated that faculty districts, particularly in small-town communities, have been overwhelmed by the inflow of overseas college students.
“The place do you pull the cash from? Do you pull cash from police? Do you pull the cash from hearth? Do you not repair the roads that 12 months? Since you do have to coach these youngsters. So, I imply it has devastating results on small communities.”
Fox Information Digital beforehand reported that Alvarez arrived in June underneath the parole course of for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV) instituted by the Biden administration.
The coverage was first introduced for Venezuelans in October 2022, which allowed a restricted quantity to fly immediately into the US so long as that they had not entered illegally, had a sponsor within the US already and handed sure checks.
Fox Information Digital reached out to Healey's workplace for remark however didn't instantly obtain a response.
