ROCKLAND, MA- It’s bad enough when so-called “sanctuary states” harbor illegal aliens. It’s far worse when the criminal justice system in those states refuses to do its job.
Such is the case in Massachusetts, where feckless Gov. Maura Healey (D) continues to defy the Trump administration’s enforcement targeting illegal aliens.
Now, a former shelter director-turned-whistleblower is “blowing the whistle” on the ineptitude of the Massachusetts justice system, claiming the light sentence of an illegal alien rapist who committed the crime at a taxpayer-funded shelter is part of a “total government failure” in the Bay State, Fox News Digital reports.
NBC Boston reports that an illegal alien from Haiti, Cory Alvarez, was found guilty of aggravated rape of a child at a shelter for illegal aliens in Rockland, Massachusetts.
Alvarez, 27, received a whopping 10-12 years in prison, according to the outlet.
Alvarez and the victim were living at a state-run shelter at a Comfort Inn in the city when he was arrested by local police in 2024 on suspicion of sexual assault on a 15-year-old female, Fox News Digital reported.
In August, Alvarez was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in August.
The agency alleged that he entered the country legally in 2023, however, he violated the terms of his admittance, thereby rendering him in the country illegally.
Jon Fetherston, the whistleblower, who ran a similar shelter in Marlborough, Massachusetts, from 2023 to 2024, said the light sentence given to Alvarez is indicative of “a much bigger problem.”
“Call it what you will, but this is a total government failure,” he said. “You have documented cases now of these girls being assaulted in shelters run with taxpayer dollars. No one at the top, including Governor Maura Healey, is taking any of the responsibility.”
Fetherston previously blew the whistle on what he called “rampant” sexual abuse of children taking place in the Massachusetts-run shelter system.
In February, he told Fox News Digital about the case of another Haitian illegal, Ronald Joseph, who raped and impregnated his own 14-year-old daughter at the Marlborough shelter.
He said that when he and authorities confronted him about the rape, he became incensed and threatened him.
Despite the magnitude of the crime, Fetherston said he was told to arrange for a ride for Joseph to another state-run shelter.
It wasn’t until many months later that Joseph was arrested. He also received a light sentence, receiving only 12 to 15 years in prison for aggravated rape of a child.
Fetherston said the above cases are not isolated but instead are part of a large pattern of child sexual abuse that has largely gone unpunished.
It is also part of the ignorance of state officials, such as Healey, and local officials, such as Boston Mayor Michele Wu, who have also defied the Trump administration.
“The state didn’t protect these children, and when you don’t protect children, you have no moral authority to run these programs,” he said. “If you’re not going to protect children, you shouldn’t be in office.”
This is what is so maddening about Democrats like Healey and Wu. They accuse Republicans of ignoring the needs of children while they look the other way as children are placed in shelters with criminal madmen.
Moreover, they do nothing to see to it that these “men” are punished to the full extent of the law.
As is typical for Democrats, Healey earlier this year tried to lay blame on her predecessor, Charlie Baker, with a Healey spokesperson telling the Boston Herald that Healey “inheritied a disaster of a shelter system” and claimed Healey “is the one who took action to implement a length of stay limit, mandate criminal background checks, require residents to prove Massachusetts residency and lawful immigration status, and get families out of hotels.”
Evidently, the Comfort Inn doesn’t qualify as a hotel, at least in the eyes of the Healey administration. And the vetting of residents to prove they are in the country legally appears to be an abject failure.
Felter disputes those claims, saying that “not a single one of these people was vetted” and “nobody knows who they are.”
“The governor opened the doors wide open and didn’t vet anybody, and that is on her,” he said.
While Felter said that “98 percent of the people I was dealing with were really good people…the 2% that weren’t were some of the worst people I have ever seen.”
Felter also made it clear that “all of these shelters are paid for with taxpayer dollars.”
“The taxpayers need to realize that essentially, and horribly, you’re funding these reapes and assaults of little girls,” while adding, “Nobody wants that.”
Fox News Digital reported that in August, Healey ordered the state shelter system closed, while making some residents eligible to receive a minimum of $30,000 in state housing assistance over two years.
He also noted that local police have reported an increase in motor vehicle crashes, while school districts, particularly in smaller communities, have been overwhelmed by the influx of foreign students.
“Where do you pull the money from? Do you pull money from police? Do you pull the money from fire? Do you not fix the roads that year? Because you do have to educate these children. So, I mean, it has devastating effects on small communities.”
Fox News Digital previously reported that Alvarez took advantage of the Biden-era parole process implemented for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.
The policy, first announced for Venezuelans in October 2022, allowed a limited number to fly directly to the U.S. under the condition that they had not entered illegally, had a sponsor in the U.S., and passed certain checks.
Healey’s office did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
The above were part of a series of crimes involving illegal aliens in Massachusetts, with Healey and Wu being complicit.
Fox News Digital reported in August that a 10-year-old was molested by his neighbor, a Haitian illegal, in a Boston suburb. Akim Marc Desire, 18, was arrested in that case and reportedly entered the country via plane in Miami and then traveled to Boston.
He is also accused of victimizing another victim “horrifically” in the Boston area, according to ICE.
In February, Jose Fernando-Perez was charged with three counts of forcible rape of a child and three counts of aggravated rape of a child.
He was arrested in Framingham, a Boston suburb located about 10 miles west of the city.
Three other illegal aliens were arrested in the tony island community of Nantucket last September and were accused of raping an unknown number of minors.
One of the suspects, Elmer Sola of El Salvador, was arrested on 11 sexual assault-related counts.
These are but a fraction of sexual assault cases with illegal alien suspects in the sanctuary state of Massachusetts, enabled by Gov. Maura Healey and Bay State Democrats.
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2025-10-19T20:03-0400 | Comment by: CRAIG
Why are these rapists still breathing air?