A migrant staying at a state-run shelter who allegedly raped and impregnated his 14-year-old daughter has pleaded responsible to sexual assault, in accordance with officers.
The 44-year-old man lately pleaded responsible to aggravated rape of a kid for sexually assaulting his daughter, in accordance with the Middlesex DA’s workplace and Marlboro Police. He’s going through 12 to fifteen years behind bars.
The Herald just isn’t naming the defendant to guard the minor woman’s id.
The sexual abuse on the Marlboro Vacation Inn was recorded as a “Serious Incident Report” by the Massachusetts Government Workplace of Housing and Livable Communities final Might.
The shelter web site run by Eliot Neighborhood Human Providers had been investigating the being pregnant of the woman.
The daddy had reportedly impregnated his daughter prior to now, in accordance with the intense incident report.
“Between September of 2023 and May of 2024, the victim and the defendant were residing at the same hotel in Marlborough when adults at both the hotel and the school the victim attended became concerned that the 14-year-old victim was pregnant,” the Middlesex DA’s workplace stated in an announcement.
“The concerns were reported to the Department of Children and Families as well as to local police and the District Attorney’s Office,” the DA’s workplace added. “As the suspect and the victim were residing at the same hotel, the victim was immediately placed into the care of the Department of Children and Families and the defendant was removed from the shelter while the investigation was ongoing.”
In the course of the investigation, an ultrasound was carried out — inserting the time of conception throughout the timeframe when the daddy and daughter have been dwelling collectively in Marlboro.
After the child was born, buccal swabs have been taken from the sufferer, her youngster, and the defendant.
“Those samples were sent to a forensic testing laboratory, and on January 24, 2025, it was determined that not only was the defendant the biological father of the victim, it was also twenty-three trillion times more likely than not, that he was the biological father of the victim’s baby,” the DA’s workplace stated.
This incident was featured in an enormous batch of “Serious Incident” studies from the Bay State’s migrant-family shelter program. There have been disturbing incidents of bodily and sexual assault in state-funded shelters since 2022.
The 1000’s of pages of studies from the Massachusetts Government Workplace of Housing and Livable Communities have been obtained by a Herald public data request and enchantment.
The studies — which expose incidents of kid rape, home violence, brawls, drunkenness, medicine and extra within the emergency housing shelter system — got here as Gov. Maura Healey handled the fallout from a giant drug and fentanyl bust in a Revere migrant resort. The governor after that high-profile arrest ordered an inspection of state-run shelters.
The studies present that there was a protracted checklist of troubling incidents within the shelter system for years.
The Healey administration has been phasing out the usage of inns and transferring folks extra shortly out of the shelter system and into secure housing.
