ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Charged with Five Counts of Raping Massachusetts Child

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday the arrest of an illegal alien charged with five counts of raping a child in Massachusetts.

ICE says that they lodged an immigration detainer against 24-year-old Brazilian national Warley Neto after he was arrested by the Tisbury, Mass. Police Department in January on five counts of rape of a child and five counts of enticing a minor under 16.

The Dukes County (Mass.) Superior Court and jail honored the immigration detainer, allowing ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston to take custody of Neto on Aug. 23.

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“Warley Neto allegedly repeatedly assaulted a Massachusetts child and represents a significant threat to the safety of our neighborhoods,” said ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons on Tuesday.

“We are grateful for the cooperation of the Dukes County Sheriff’s Office for prioritizing public safety and allowing Neto’s safe transfer of custody to ERO,” Lyons said. “Too often local jurisdictions refuse to honor immigration detainers and release dangerous offenders back into the community to reoffend.”

“ERO Boston will continue to apprehend and remove the most egregious noncitizen offenders from New England,” he added.

According to ICE, Neto was apprehended by Border Patrol after illegally crossing the southwest U.S.-Mexico border into Texas in March 2018. Neto was reportedly served with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge and released into country.

The Brazilian national was previously convicted in June 2023 of threatening to commit crime, assault and battery on a family household member and strangulation or suffocation in a Massachusetts District Court, and was given a suspended sentence of just 90 days in prison, ICE said.