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Yahoo
19-07-2025
- Yahoo
Migrant father pleads guilty to rape after teen daughter's pregnancy
A Haitian migrant pleaded guilty to a rape charge after a DNA test proved that he was the father of his teenage daughter's baby, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan's office said. The man, who MassLive is not identifying so as not to identify his daughter, pleaded guilty to aggravated rape of a child for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female victim who was known to him. On Friday, July 11, Judge Kenneth Salinger sentenced the man to 12 to 15 years committed to the Massachusetts Department of Correction. Between September 2023 and May 2024, the man and his daughter were at Marlborough Holiday Inn operating as a migrant shelter in the city, according to meeting minutes for the city's Board of Health. On April 30, 2024, when a school resource officer at the Whitcomb School in Marlborough learned of the 14-year-old girl's pregnancy, she told the school that she had dated a 17-year-old boy and they had had sex. Her pregnancy was confirmed by personnel at a hospital, according to a police report filed in court. The girl was removed from the shelter as the investigation continued, Ryan's office said in a statement. An ultrasound during the investigation found that the time of conception was while the girl and the man were living together in Marlborough, Ryan's office said. After the baby's birth, buccal swabs were done on the girl, the baby and the father and sent to a laboratory. On Jan. 24, the lab determined that the man was not only the girl's father, 'it was also twenty-three trillion times more likely than not that he was the biological father of the victim's baby,' Ryan's office said. The man was arrested one week later and was held without bail before he was indicted on Feb. 19. More local crime stories Idaho man cyberstalked Mass. professor with online messages, emails, feds say Ex-Stoughton town employee sentenced to prison for tampering drinking water Bridgewater women to face charges after leaving dogs in hot car, police say Mass. man drunken drove, sped at over 100 mph prior to crash in N.H., police say Two women charged with animal cruelty after dogs die in hot car in Bridgewater Read the original article on MassLive.
Fox News
18-07-2025
- Fox News
Illegal alien who raped, impregnated his own daughter at government-run shelter learns prison sentence
Illegal alien Ronald Joseph was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to raping and impregnating his own teenage daughter while living at a government-run Massachusetts migrant shelter. Joseph, a 44-year-old Haitian national, was living in a government-run hotel in Marlborough, Massachusetts, when it was discovered he had repeatedly raped his own daughter, resulting in the 14-year-old girl becoming pregnant. Though the crimes were committed between 2023 and 2024, Joseph was not arrested until Jan. 31, 2025, when he was charged with aggravated rape of a child and held without bail. In a statement Thursday, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Marlborough Chief of Police David Giorgi confirmed Joseph pleaded guilty to aggravated rape of a child for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old victim. According to the statement, Judge Kenneth Salinger of the Massachusetts Superior Courts sentenced Joseph July 11 to 12-15 years in prison. The statement said, during the investigation, an extensive ultrasound was conducted, which placed the time of conception within the timeframe when the child and Joseph were living together at the shelter. After the baby was born, mouth swabs were taken and tested from the victim, her child and Joseph, which determined it was 23 trillion times more likely than not that Joseph was the biological father of his daughter's baby. According to The Boston Globe, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also filed an immigration detainer against Joseph. The outlet reported an ICE spokesperson saying that Joseph entered the U.S. in May 2023 without valid paperwork but was granted entry into the country and given a date to appear before an immigration judge. Earlier this year, Jon Fetherston, a former Massachusetts state employee who was running the Marlborough shelter when the crime was uncovered, told Fox News Digital that when he confronted Joseph, the Haitian migrant grabbed and attacked him. A report by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, obtained by Fox News Digital, further confirmed that after Joseph was informed he would lose access to his daughter, he "got very agitated and started yelling" at Fetherston, stating that "this was all his fault, and he was to blame." Fetherston told Fox News Digital that as soon as Joseph heard he was losing custody of his daughter, he "reached across the table and grabbed me and got angry with me and started cursing and yelling and screaming and swinging at me because he realized what was happening." Rather than arrest Joseph immediately, Fetherston said he was directed by authorities to order the immigrant a Lyft ride to another shelter in Worcester County. "I'm going to be honest. The entire experience has shaken me to my core," said Fetherston. After Joseph's sentencing, Fetherston told Fox News Digital "the arrest of Ronald Joseph is not an isolated incident," but rather "it's the byproduct of a reckless, opaque and mismanaged system that has operated without accountability for far too long." "Crimes occurring within these state-funded shelters have been intense, frequent and deeply concerning to the general public," said Fetherston. "From sexual assaults to drug trafficking and violent behavior, the state has failed both the migrants and the Massachusetts taxpayers." Joseph is not the only illegal immigrant who has been caught committing crimes while living in a Massachusetts shelter. In December, Dominican national Leonardo Andujar Sanchez, 28, was caught storing an AR-15, ammunition and about $1 million in fentanyl in another state-run hotel in Revere, Massachusetts. In May, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat who has been critical of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, announced the state would be closing the remaining 32 shelters this summer. Healey cited a decline in need for the shelters. A statement by her office said the number of families in shelters had dropped below 5,000. Commenting on the shelter closures, Fetherston told Fox News Digital the plan "raises more questions than it answers." "Where exactly are these unvetted individuals going? Massachusetts has one of the lowest housing inventories in the country. Are we really expected to believe that after two years of failure to house residents properly, the state has suddenly solved the crisis overnight?" he said. "This isn't policy. This is political gaslighting." Fox News Digital reached out to Healey's office for comment but did not hear back prior to publication deadline.
Fox News
18-07-2025
- Fox News
Illegal pleads guilty to impregnating his own daughter at blue state migrant shelter
Illegal alien Ronald Joseph was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to raping and impregnating his own teenage daughter while living at a government-run Massachusetts migrant shelter. Joseph, a 44-year-old Haitian national, was living in a government-run hotel in Marlborough, Massachusetts, when it was discovered he had repeatedly raped his own daughter, resulting in the 14-year-old girl becoming pregnant. Though the crimes were committed between 2023 and 2024, Joseph was not arrested until Jan. 31, 2025, when he was charged with aggravated rape of a child and held without bail. In a statement Thursday, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Marlborough Chief of Police David Giorgi confirmed Joseph pleaded guilty to aggravated rape of a child for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old victim. According to the statement, Judge Kenneth Salinger of the Massachusetts Superior Courts sentenced Joseph July 11 to 12-15 years in prison. The statement said, during the investigation, an extensive ultrasound was conducted, which placed the time of conception within the timeframe when the child and Joseph were living together at the shelter. After the baby was born, mouth swabs were taken and tested from the victim, her child and Joseph, which determined it was 23 trillion times more likely than not that Joseph was the biological father of his daughter's baby. According to The Boston Globe, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also filed an immigration detainer against Joseph. The outlet reported an ICE spokesperson saying that Joseph entered the U.S. in May 2023 without valid paperwork but was granted entry into the country and given a date to appear before an immigration judge. Earlier this year, Jon Fetherston, a former Massachusetts state employee who was running the Marlborough shelter when the crime was uncovered, told Fox News Digital that when he confronted Joseph, the Haitian migrant grabbed and attacked him. A report by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, obtained by Fox News Digital, further confirmed that after Joseph was informed he would lose access to his daughter, he "got very agitated and started yelling" at Fetherston, stating that "this was all his fault, and he was to blame." Fetherston told Fox News Digital that as soon as Joseph heard he was losing custody of his daughter, he "reached across the table and grabbed me and got angry with me and started cursing and yelling and screaming and swinging at me because he realized what was happening." Rather than arrest Joseph immediately, Fetherston said he was directed by authorities to order the immigrant a Lyft ride to another shelter in Worcester County. "I'm going to be honest. The entire experience has shaken me to my core," said Fetherston. After Joseph's sentencing, Fetherston told Fox News Digital "the arrest of Ronald Joseph is not an isolated incident," but rather "it's the byproduct of a reckless, opaque and mismanaged system that has operated without accountability for far too long." "Crimes occurring within these state-funded shelters have been intense, frequent and deeply concerning to the general public," said Fetherston. "From sexual assaults to drug trafficking and violent behavior, the state has failed both the migrants and the Massachusetts taxpayers." Joseph is not the only illegal immigrant who has been caught committing crimes while living in a Massachusetts shelter. In December, Dominican national Leonardo Andujar Sanchez, 28, was caught storing an AR-15, ammunition and about $1 million in fentanyl in another state-run hotel in Revere, Massachusetts. In May, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat who has been critical of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, announced the state would be closing the remaining 32 shelters this summer. Healey cited a decline in need for the shelters. A statement by her office said the number of families in shelters had dropped below 5,000. Commenting on the shelter closures, Fetherston told Fox News Digital the plan "raises more questions than it answers." "Where exactly are these unvetted individuals going? Massachusetts has one of the lowest housing inventories in the country. Are we really expected to believe that after two years of failure to house residents properly, the state has suddenly solved the crisis overnight?" he said. "This isn't policy. This is political gaslighting." Fox News Digital reached out to Healey's office for comment but did not hear back prior to publication deadline.
Boston Globe
23-05-2025
- Boston Globe
50th anniversary of unsolved homicide in Burlington prompts new call to identify ‘John Doe'
His body was discovered on May 22, 1975 in a wooded area near Muller Road, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Burlington police Chief Thomas Browne said in a joint statement Thursday. In particular, law enforcement officials are calling on New England families of Italian, Spanish, or Greek extraction, who may have lost touch with a younger male relative in the early 1970s, to contact them. The man suffered fatal head wounds, was determined to be in his late 20s or early 30s. He wore a necklace around his neck with a distinctive round medallion depicting two faces, authorities said. 'Thousands of families across our country have lost loved ones to murder,' Ryan said in a statement. 'The bodies of many of these victims have never been recovered and given a proper burial. Others have been recovered, but never identified, and are buried in unmarked graves. This office is committed to identifying all victims of homicide and giving their grieving families closure.' Advertisement The victim was likely between 5-feet, 10 inches and 6-feet tall, with long dark hair, and probably had a beard, officials said. He wore a T-shirt, jeans, canvas sneakers, an army fatigue-style jacket, and a garrison-type belt with a distinctive buckle, according to the statement. Advertisement An eyeglass case was found at the burial site, suggesting the victim wore glasses, authorities said. Over 45 years, multiple leads went nowhere. In 2023 the Cold Case Unit in the DA's office obtained a search warrant authorizing the exhumation of the victim's remains from where they were buried in an unmarked grave in Burlington, according to the statement. DNA samples taken from the victim's bones and teeth were analyzed by a forensic genetic genealogy firm that determined that he was likely of Southern European extraction. 'However, no close relative of the victim has been identified,' the joint statement said. 'It is my hope that this new information will get people to take another close look at this case and call authorities with any information that might help us to identify this individual,' Browne's statement said. Investigators can be contacted at 781-897-6600, or by email at Tonya Alanez can be reached at
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Yahoo
Car drove erratically in 5-vehicle crash on I-93 that killed 1, DA says
Massachusetts State Police and Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan's office are asking for the public's help with a five-vehicle crash on Interstate 93 in Medford, Ryan's office said Friday. At around 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, a crash between a Toyota Camry, a Subaru Forester, a Ford Explorer, a Honda Odyssey and a Ford F350 truck with a trailer, Ryan's office said in a statement. The Toyota Camry 'may have been operating erratically prior to the multi-car crash,' the statement read, citing preliminary information. The driver of the Ford F350, Fredis Saravia-Corvera, 34, died after his truck rolled over as a result of the crash, State Police said in a previous statement. A passenger in the Honda Odyssey was also hurt and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, Ryan's office said. Everyone else in the crash remained in the area. 'As part of the ongoing investigation into the cause of the crash, investigators are asking anyone who witnessed the crash, or any activity of these vehicles prior to the incident, to contact the Massachusetts State Police Barracks in Medford at 781-396-0100,' Ryan's office said. The crash prompted a closure of the northbound side of the highway for two hours, State Police said. All lanes reopened just before 11 p.m. The crash continues to be under investigation. Man died in Webster house fire, reports say Man killed in fire at multi-family home in Revere, fire officials say Fatal Cape Cod house fire caused by smoldering cigarettes, fire officials say
