‘Rampant’ abuse in blue state migrant shelter system, says former director: ‘Colossal mess’
After being attacked by an immigrant rapist, Jon Fetherston, a former Massachusetts migrant shelter director, is blowing the whistle concerning the “rampant” abuse within the Massachusetts migrant shelter system, which he stated is “only a large, colossal mess.”
Fetherston, who served because the director of the Marlborough migrant shelter from 2023 to 2024, stated that the quantity of crime, home abuse and youngster neglect that takes place within the Massachusetts migrant shelter system is “mind-boggling.” In an interview with Fox Information Digital, Fetherston revealed that he was grabbed and attacked by a Haitian immigrant after he was confronted about raping and impregnating his personal teenage daughter.
The Maine Wire first broke the story concerning the Haitian migrant, Ronald Joseph, 42, impregnating his then 13-year-old daughter. Joseph repeatedly raped and impregnated his daughter whereas staying at a government-funded migrant shelter at a Vacation Inn in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and former Marlborough migrant shelter director Jon Fetherston. (Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg through Getty Photos and Jon Fetherston)
A report by the Massachusetts Government Workplace of Housing and Livable Communities obtained by Fox Information Digital says that after being knowledgeable he would lose entry to his daughter, Joseph “acquired very agitated and began yelling” at Fetherston that “this was all his fault, and he was guilty.”
Fetherston informed Fox Information Digital that as quickly as Joseph heard he was dropping custody of his daughter, he “reached throughout the desk and grabbed me and acquired indignant with me and began cursing and yelling and screaming and swinging at me as a result of he realized what was taking place.”
“I’ll be sincere; your complete expertise has shaken me to my core,” stated Fetherston.
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Meshach Little of Northill Wilkston Safety Agency walks the perimeter of the principle residing space on the state’s new emergency overflow shelter for migrants on the Melnea A. Cass Leisure Complicated. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe through Getty Photos)
He clarified that “it is not a lot the lunging at me and swinging” however fairly the dialog that jarred him probably the most.
“The dialog was in all probability probably the most jarring dialog I’ve ever had in my life,” he stated. “His justification for having intercourse along with his daughter was — and he did say it via an interpreter; he did not say it in English — that in his nation — which his nation of origin was Haiti — if a lady bled, that means if she had her interval, you can have intercourse along with her and that was his justification for having intercourse along with his daughter.”
Quite than arresting Joseph instantly, Fetherston was directed by authorities to order the immigrant a Lyft trip to a different shelter in Worcester County. Joseph was not arrested till eight months later when Marlborough police lastly apprehended him earlier this month.
“The Marlborough police got here and calmed him down and really had me switch him to a different shelter,” he defined. “I requested the Marlborough police like: ‘Why is not he being arrested? He admitted to this. Not less than why aren’t you simply detaining him on the very least?’ They usually’re like: ‘We’ll determine all of it out.’ It took them eight months to determine all of it out.”
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ICE brokers are pictured arresting a person. ICE brokers arrested an Indian citizen following his convictions for youngster intercourse abuse. (ICE ERO El Paso/X)
Although this case was notably egregious, Fetherston stated that “there may be a number of undocumented violence that goes on” and that rape, home violence, intercourse trafficking, drug dealing and different crimes are so commonplace within the Massachusetts shelter system that many incidents merely fall via the cracks.
“I’ll let you know, sadly, that it occurs lots,” he stated. “There have been occasions after I was working the shelter that there in all probability ought to have been occasions after I ought to have performed extra reporting, you simply did not have the time to do it.”
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“It is only a large, colossal mess,” Fetherston added. “I have been in public service most of my grownup life, both via elective workplace or volunteering. By no means in my wildest desires did I think about the migrant shelters can be the chaos that it’s… It is a systematic drawback, that there’s chaos in these communities and the general public has the suitable to know what’s going on.”
The previous shelter director stated that earlier than quitting his job he introduced his considerations concerning the widespread abuse to Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll — each Democrats — however neither gave him the time of day. Though Healey not too long ago vowed to reform the shelter system and start necessary background checks on residents, Fetherston stated there have but to be any actual adjustments.
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey go to the Melnea A. Cass Leisure Complicated, which was getting used to deal with greater than 300 migrants. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe through Getty Photos)
Regardless of guarantees of reform, the legislature renewed shelter funding at $425 million via June with no new adjustments.
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“Persons are annoyed from prime to backside,” he stated. “The governor has spent over $3.5 billion simply of the taxpayers’ cash simply on the migrant inns [and]… simply final week the Senate and Home handed [a bill] to fund this migrant program till July of this yr, zero reform, zero necessary checks.”
“The governor says that each one these items is coming,” he concluded, “and finally, on the finish, there was no reform put within the bundle. It was simply the approval to fund the shelters via the top of July. So, there isn’t any reform.”
