Haitian migrant accused of raping Boston teen released on $500 bail

A Haitian migrant accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at a Massachusetts shelter has been released on bail — despite federal immigration authorities' request to detain him.

Cory Alvarez, who had been held without bail since his arrest in March, was released Tuesday on a meager $500 bond after Plymouth County Superior Court ignored a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep the suspect in custody, the Boston Herald reported.

Prosecutors had also requested $25,000 bail if the court decided not to order continued pretrial detention, according to the Boston Globe.

Alvarez's release also comes after Plymouth County Prosecutor Tim Cruz denied a pretrial motion to keep him in jail, the Herald added.

Alvarez, 26, was released with an ankle monitor, but ICE officials can't track him because Boston is a sanctuary city, meaning local authorities don't have to cooperate with the federal government .

The suspect was also ordered to surrender his passport and report twice a month for judicial review, according to legal documents obtained by the Globe. He is due back in court on August 13.

Federal immigration authorities said in March that they had filed an immigration arrest request against Alvarez with the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office.

However, a spokesperson for ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations Division told the Globe that Plymouth Superior Court officials “refused to honor” their arrest warrant.

The Plymouth County District Attorney's Office did not return The Post's request for comment.

ICE sources, for their part, are furious about the migrant's release.

One source called it “standard Democratic bullshit,” making it “nearly impossible to do our job.”

“It's the idiot judges who are causing a lot of these problems by ignoring the root of the problem,” the source lamented.

“California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts and other Democratic states all do this. If we do background checks on people who live in those states, we know they have policies in place to prevent any information from being shared.”

Former ICE Field Office Director John Fabbricatore said Alvarez's release is emblematic of a “disturbing trend of inadequate and failed screening procedures.”

“This rushed process undermines the thorough vetting typically conducted before parole or visas are granted. The current administration’s haphazard approach raises significant security concerns for American citizens,” Fabbricatore told the Post.

“In particular, this recent case involving an accusation of rape by a Haitian national admitted under Biden's parole program highlights the ongoing problem. Additionally, sanctuary city policies continue to provide protection to foreign-born criminals rather than protecting law-abiding, tax-paying citizens.

Alvarez had no known criminal history when he entered the United States at JFK Airport in June 2023 as part of President Biden's controversial parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans ( CHNV).

After Alvarez's arrest in March, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) led an investigation into the CHNV program.

Alvarez's entry documents indicated he would live with a sponsor in Elizabeth, New Jersey, but he ultimately ended up at the Comfort Inn in Rockland, Massachusetts, which had been converted into a migrant shelter.

He was arrested at the shelter on March 13 in connection with the rape of a disabled teenage girl.

“He raped me,” the victim told investigators at South Shore Hospital, according to the Herald. “I asked him to leave me alone but he didn’t stop.”

Alvarez has pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated rape of a child with a 10-year age difference and rape of a child by force.