A judge gave a Haitian illegal alien, who came to the U.S. lawfully, accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at a migrant hotel $500 bond.
Bail for Cory Alvarez was set at $500. If it’s posted, he would be restricted to home confinement with a GPS monitor, his court-appointed lawyer, Brian Kelley, said after a dangerousness hearing Tuesday in Brockton Superior Court.Alvarez, 26, has been in jail since his arrest March 13. He was indicted by a Superior Court grand jury May 21 and arraigned May 31. He has pleaded not guilty to one count each of aggravated rape of a child with a 10-year age difference and rape of a child by force. Authorities say the alleged crimes occurred at a hotel used as migrant housing in Rockland.Plymouth County prosecutor Shanan Buckingham said Alvarez should be deemed dangerous and remain in jail. Buckingham suggested a $10,000 cash bail due to the seriousness of the charges with several conditions, including home confinement and a GPS monitor.
To make matters worse, the Massachusetts sanctuary law keeps Alvarez safe from ICE. The court ignored the agency’s request to detain him.
If Alvarez posts the bond and gets a GPS monitor, the state and local officials cannot give ICE any information due to those sanctuary laws.
For some weird reason, Sullivan agreed with Alvarez’s lawyers at the hearings. She cited “his lack of criminal record and the low likelihood he would be able to flee.”
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She said the state had not met the “clearand convincing” legal threshold required to deny his bail request.She agreed with Kelley that there are discrepancies in testimony from witnesses in the case and surveillance video. That includes video showing the 15-year-old entering Alvarez’s room without visible coercion and leaving 8 minutes later with her clothing, hair and demeanor appearing to be the same as when she went into his room.A rape kit processed at South Shore Hospital the night of police call showed male DNA. Prosecutors plan to seek a DNA sample from Alvarez to be compared with the sample collected from the accuser.
Alvarez came to the country through the CHNV parole program in June 2023.
Bill Melugin reported that Alvarez “flew directly into JFK airport – and was supposed to be with a sponsor in New Jersey, but somehow ended up in a migrant hotel in Rockland, MA, where he was arrested for the rape of the teen girl was and indicted by a grand jury in May.”
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