An illegal immigrant from El Salvador is in ICE custody after being arrested on 11 alleged sex crimes — including aggravated rape of a child, immigration officials announced Friday.
Elmer Sola, 49, was arrested on Nantucket and now faces being deported after answering for his charges in Massachusetts.
He has already been arraigned in Nantucket Superior Court and arraigned on three counts of aggravated rape of a child and eight counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, officials said.
“Elmer Sola unlawfully entered the United States, then made his way into our Nantucket community before allegedly committing some horrific and despicable crimes against a child,” said Todd M. Lyons, field office director for Enforcement and Removal Operations in Boston.
Lyons added, “The officers of ERO Boston will not tolerate such a threat to the children of our New England neighborhoods. We will continue to prioritize the safety of our public by arresting and removing egregious noncitizen offenders.”
Sola entered the U.S. illegally “on an unknown date at an unknown location, without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by an immigration official,” ICE said.
As the Herald reported this week, a Brazilian national was arrested by immigration officers after being charged with sexually assaulting a Nantucket resident.
A day earlier ICE agents arrested a 28-year-old Salvadoran national who has been charged with raping a Nantucket child.
It’s a troubling trend that has yet to let up.
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