The Haitian nationwide discovered responsible of raping a “disabled” 15-year-old woman at a Rockland lodge used as an immigration shelter was sentenced to at the very least a decade in state jail.
“Our commitment to seeing this case through was, most importantly, about seeking justice on behalf of the child victim,” Plymouth District Legal professional Timothy Cruz stated. “It was also about ensuring that both the victim, and the defendant had their day in court. My thoughts remain with the child victim in this case, her father, and her family. With sentencing today, I hope that this family can find some closure.”
A Plymouth Superior Courtroom Choose sentenced Cory Alvarez, 27, to 10 to 12 years in state jail. The sentence adopted a four-day trial and 5 and a half hours of deliberation earlier than the jury convicted him on one depend of aggravated rape of a kid with a 10-year age distinction.
Prosecutors had sought a 15- to 18-year sentence for the crime, based on the Plymouth County DA’s workplace.
Police have been dispatched to the Consolation Inn at 750 Hingham St. in Rockland at round 7 p.m. on March 13, 2024, after the desk clerk referred to as to report a rape. On the time, the lodge was used as a joint state and federal program to accommodate and feed immigrant households staying there, which included Alvarez and his sufferer.
There the police discovered the woman sufferer and had her transported to South Shore Hospital for therapy.
“He raped me,” the woman informed investigators on the hospital, the Herald reported beforehand. “I asked him to leave me alone but he didn’t stop.”
Neither the woman nor her father have been English audio system, and spoke with police by means of assistance from a French Creole interpreter who related by phone.
Prosecutors say that Alvarez went with the woman to his room, room 216, to purportedly assist her indirectly together with her government-provided pill laptop.
Whereas the 2 have been within the room collectively, prosecutors allege, Alvarez requested her if she had a boyfriend earlier than he pushed her to the mattress, pulled down her pants and underwear and preceded to rape her.
Alvarez is topic to deportation. He was initially launched on $500 bail, after which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested him. His bail was subsequently elevated to $150,000, which the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Courtroom affirmed upon enchantment to permit the trial to play out earlier than deportation.
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Cory Alvarez is taken into custody in Brockton in August 2024 by Boston-based immigration officers after his launch on $500 bail. (ICE photograph)
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