When shepherds invite wolves into the fold, they shouldn’t be surprised when the sheep go missing. But in Massachusetts, the shepherds are still pretending everything’s fine—even as the bleating grows fainter.

Massachusetts prides itself on being a sanctuary state—you know, one of those enlightened places where Democrats get to feel morally superior while someone else pays the price. Governor Maura Healey has championed policies that opened the state’s doors—and wallets—wide to anyone seeking shelter. But behind the noble rhetoric and feel-good press releases, something darker has been unfolding in the taxpayer-funded migrant shelters scattered across the Commonwealth.

Jon Fetherston knows this darkness firsthand. As a former shelter director in Marlborough from 2023 to 2024, he witnessed what happens when government compassion overrides common sense. Now a whistleblower, Fetherston has been trying to sound the alarm about what he calls “total government failure.” His warnings, dismissed by state officials, have proven tragically prophetic.

A Pattern Emerges

The latest confirmation came this week when Haitian illegal alien Cory Alvarez, 27, was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison for the aggravated rape of a child at a migrant shelter in Rockland. The victim was a 15-year-old girl. Both were living at a state-run shelter at a Comfort Inn—a facility paid for with tax dollars from hardworking Massachusetts residents.

This wasn’t an isolated incident. (Are you sitting down? Because it gets worse.) Fetherston reveals another case: Ronald Joseph, also a Haitian illegal alien, who raped and impregnated his own 14-year-old daughter at the Marlborough shelter. When Fetherston and authorities confronted Joseph about the assault, the man became agitated and threatened the shelter director. The state’s response? They instructed Fetherston to order Joseph a ride to another state-run shelter. Not arrest him. Not protect other children. Just shuffle him along to potentially harm someone else’s child.

Joseph wasn’t arrested until months later. He’s now serving 12 to 15 years, but only after the damage was done and the system’s failures were laid bare. Makes you wonder—how many more Josephs are out there, shuffled from shelter to shelter?

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The taxpayers need to realize that essentially, and horribly, you’re funding these rapes and assaults of little girls. Nobody wants that.

The Price of Sanctuary

Governor Healey claims her administration inherited a “disaster of a shelter system” and implemented criminal background checks. But Fetherston tells a different story: “Not a single one of these people was vetted. Nobody knows who they are.” The governor who promised compassion delivered chaos instead.

Now here’s where your blood should really start boiling. The financial toll compounds the human tragedy. When Healey finally ordered shelter closures in August, she made residents eligible for $30,000 in state housing assistance over two years. That’s your money, funding a system that couldn’t even protect children from predators living under the same roof.

The ripple effects extend beyond the shelters. Local police report increased auto accidents. Small-town school districts are overwhelmed with foreign students they’re legally required to educate. “Where do you pull the money from?” Fetherston asks. “Do you pull money from police? Do you pull the money from fire? Do you not fix the roads that year?”

Here’s what infuriates me most—and trust me, there’s plenty to choose from: Fetherston emphasizes that “98 percent of the people that I was dealing with were really good people.” But the state’s reckless policies empowered the worst 2%—what Fetherston calls “some of the worst people I have ever seen”—to prey on the vulnerable. When you refuse to vet, refuse to enforce standards, refuse to prioritize safety, you become complicit in the consequences.

Governor Healey had one job above all others: protect children. She failed. As Fetherston puts it, “If you’re not going to protect children, you shouldn’t be in office.” Yet Healey remains, and Massachusetts children remain at risk.

The shepherds invited the wolves, gave them shelter, gave them our money, and looked away when the lambs started disappearing. And we’re all paying for it—in dollars, in innocence lost, in a society where Democrats’ political ideology apparently matters more than children’s safety. Massachusetts wanted to be a sanctuary. It became a hunting ground instead.

Key Takeaways

• Multiple illegal aliens convicted of child rape in Massachusetts taxpayer-funded shelters
• Whistleblower reveals zero vetting despite Governor Healey’s claims of background checks
• State officials ordered accused rapists to other shelters instead of arresting them
• Massachusetts residents paying $30,000 per migrant while children remain unprotected

Sources: Fox News