According to multiple law enforcement sources, the rape happened inside a migrant hotel.
Marc Kervens Beauvais faces several charges, including aggravated rape and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston apprehended 34-year-old Marc Kervens Beauvais Aug. 13 in the city of Peabody, north of Boston, nearly two weeks after he was arrested on charges of aggravated rape, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a pregnant victim and attempt to commit a crime.
Beauvais was arrested by the Peabody Police Department July 31 for the offenses and was arraigned Aug. 1 in Peabody District Court.
During a court hearing Tuesday, Beauvais was released on his own recognizance by a judge, but ICE had officers in the courtroom immediately arrest him.
“Marc Kervens Beauvais is charged with committing unspeakable acts against a pregnant woman in Massachusetts,” ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd M. Lyons said.
“We simply cannot allow anyone that poses such a threat to prey upon the residents of our communities.Â
“ERO Boston will continue our mission of prioritizing public safety by aggressively apprehending and removing egregious noncitizen offenders from New England.”
ICE says Beauvais was arrested by Border Patrol June 26, 2021, near Del Rio, Texas, after he crossed into the U.S. illegally. He was then released into the U.S. with a notice to report for processing.
The arrest comes the same week ICE located and arrested another Haitian immigrant, 26-year-old Cory B. Alvarez, after he had been released on $500 bond in June despite facing charges of raping a child at a different Massachusetts migrant hotel in March.
