Haitian illegal immigrant gets decade in prison for rape of girl at shelter hotel

Flint McColgan, Boston Herald on Oct 10, 2025

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BOSTON — The Haitian national found guilty of raping a “disabled” 15-year-old girl at a Rockland hotel used as an immigration shelter was sentenced to at least a decade in state prison.

“Our commitment to seeing this case through was, most importantly, about seeking justice on behalf of the child victim,” Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz said. “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 Court Judge sentenced Cory Alvarez, 27, to 10 to 12 years in state prison. The sentence followed a four-day trial and five and a half hours of deliberation before the jury convicted him on one count of aggravated rape of a child with a 10-year age difference.

Prosecutors had sought a 15- to 18-year sentence for the crime, according to the Plymouth County DA’s office.

Police were dispatched to the Comfort Inn at 750 Hingham St. in Rockland at around 7 p.m. on March 13, 2024, after the desk clerk called to report a rape. At the time, the hotel was used as a joint state and federal program to house and feed immigrant families staying there, which included Alvarez and his victim.

There the police found the girl victim and had her transported to South Shore Hospital for treatment.

“He raped me,” the girl told investigators at the hospital, the Herald reported previously. “I asked him to leave me alone but he didn’t stop.”

Neither the girl nor her father were English speakers, and spoke with police through the aid of a French Creole interpreter who connected by telephone.

Prosecutors say that Alvarez went with the girl to his room, room 216, to purportedly help her in some way with her government-provided tablet computer.

While the two were in the room together, prosecutors allege, Alvarez asked her if she had a boyfriend before he pushed her to the bed, pulled down her pants and underwear and preceded to rape her.

Alvarez is subject to deportation. He was originally released on $500 bail, after which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested him. His bail was subsequently increased to $150,000, which the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed upon appeal to allow the trial to play out before deportation.

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