Massachusetts authorities were housing immigrant children among registered sex offenders, a Boston Globe investigation has revealed.
according to Boston Globe coverageThe newspaper’s investigation suggested the state failed to vet hotels in the state before letting immigrant families live among the alleged looters.
“For the last month, the state Department of Housing and Communities, which oversees programs to shelter homeless families, has denied the Globe’s request for information about sex offenders in shelters,” the Globe reported. “The Globe has requested information as part of a detailed investigation, as hotel providers are required to test for sex offenders, but are not required to ban them.”
“After the Globe independently identified the sex offender and sought comment, A spokesperson said late Thursday that the agency is in the process of removing these individuals. None of them are immigrants,” the Globe reported.
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The Comfort Inn, located at 850 Hingham Street in Rockland, Massachusetts, is part of a state/federal program to house immigrants. (Google Maps)
The newspaper reported that a shocking number of hotels across the Bay State have sex offenders rubbing shoulders with immigrant children.
At least five hotels and one dormitory used by the state as homeless shelters housed sex offenders convicted of crimes against children, including child rape, indecent assault and battery on children, and child pornography. were housed or employed;
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The Globe noted that four of the five predators identified not only lived among the children, but were also employed by the hotel.
The paper said there were no immigrants among the registered sex offenders.
A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Communities told the Globe that shelter addresses are checked against the Sex Offender Registration Board on a semi-annual basis so that providers can notify families. Admitted.
According to the agency, the most recent inspection was conducted in March.
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced that the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home would be converted into a facility for immigrants. (Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Google Maps/Screenshot)
After a Haitian immigrant raped a 15-year-old disabled girl in a hotel in March, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey assured residents that “everyone” entering immigrant housing would be thoroughly “screened.” Later, news broke that there was a predator living among vulnerable children.
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“Everyone who enters our shelter is tested, including him,” she told reporters in March.
Local authorities in Rockland, Massachusetts, arrested Corey Alvarez, 26, a Haitian national, on rape charges after he allegedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old boy at a Comfort Inn.
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, accompanied by fellow Democrats Senate President Karen Spilka and House Speaker Ronald Mariano, at an overflow shelter location at the Massachusetts State Capitol in Boston, Monday, March 25, 2024. It announced that homeless families staying there will soon have to submit documentation every month. Their efforts to find a way out of the overflow shelter system, such as finding housing or jobs or taking English classes. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc)
The immigration crisis is an ongoing crisis for Massachusetts.
The state’s newest emergency shelter in Roxbury, near Boston, reached capacity for 400 people in just one week last month.
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New York City, Chicago, and New York state declared states of emergency last year. asked for help In response to the immigration crisis.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Healey’s office, the state’s Office of Housing and Livability, and the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
