Illegal-immigrant families are being housed with sex offenders in multiple locations across the state
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities has been housing immigrant families with children in facilities that either employ or house sex offenders, according to an investigation by The Boston Globe.
Sex offenders convicted of a range of crimes from child rape to possession of child pornography were housed or working in five hotels that are used to house illegal immigrants and their families, including children.
One of the hotels includes the Comfort Inn in Rockland, where a 26-year-old man allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl, in March. Both were Haitian immigrants.
At the time of the rape, Massachusetts governor Maura Healey reassured the public that all migrants were being screened for criminal records.
The Globe found no evidence that any of the residents of the hotels were told they were sharing their new home with sex offenders.
For example, The Globe noted that there was no public information on display at the Northborough Econo Lodge “alerting guests to the presence of a Level 3 sex offender who was convicted in 1990 in Houston of rape of a child with force.”
In a statement to The Globe, a spokesperson for the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities said, “The safety and wellbeing of the 7,500 families in Emergency Assistance shelter is a priority for our administration.
“We will continue to take all possible steps to ensure the safety of EA residents and carefully review any situation that comes before us to act quickly to protect families.”
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