Horrific: Convicted Child Rapist Who Fled Justice in Brazil Found Living Illegally in MA Home Daycare

The owner of a Cape Cod, Massachusetts home daycare center has closed her business after she was outed for harboring an illegal immigrant—he also happens to be baby daddy to her two children—who was convicted in Brazil for the rape of a 13-year-old girl. Instead of facing justice in his homeland, the child rapist illegally crossed the border into the United States and holed up in the home that housed the daycare center where, presumably, he came into regular contact with the children enrolled in the daycare program.

Local media has identified the daycare owner as Franciele Nunes. Nunes found herself on the media's radar last October when the illegal, Andre Tiago Lucas, was picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston after eluding justice for his heinous crime. Lucas was convicted in 2016 of the "rape of a vulnerable person" and was handed a sentence of nine years and four months; after fleeing his homeland, Tiago Lucas ended up in Massachusetts and shacked up with Franciele Nunes.

JUST IN: A licensed home daycare on Cape Cod has closed down after concealing a Brazilian illegal immigrant convicted of child r*pe.

Andre Tiago Lucas fled to Massachusetts to evade a nine-year prison sentence in Minas Gerais, Brazil, for the r*pe of a 13-year-old girl,… pic.twitter.com/aqQ3BhnLC8
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Here's what ICE had to say about Ms. Nunes' love interest at the time of his arrest:

“This Brazilian fugitive has been convicted of a heinous crime in his native country. Rather than face the consequences for his actions, he chose to flee, falsely believing he could evade justice in Massachusetts,” said acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde of ERO Boston. “ERO Boston will continue to prioritize public safety by arresting and removing egregious noncitizen offenders.”

The kicker here is that the state daycare licensing agency, the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC), had inspected Nunes' daycare center five times and failed to discover Tiago Lucas's presence in the home. And Ms. Nunes clearly chose not to alert authorities to the fact that a child predator was in her house and likely had unfettered access to the children in her care.

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The EEC does mandate background checks for anyone living in or regularly visiting a residence used as a home daycare, but even if they had been made aware of Tiago Lewis's presence, they never would have found out about his criminal past because their system does not have access to the criminal records of other countries. Oh, and immigration status isn't considered during these background checks.

Local law enforcement was gobsmacked at the discovery:

“The idea that someone has been documented, that a Brazilian national fled the country because they were convicted for rape of a 13-year-old and could come to Massachusetts and not only disappear into the fabric of Massachusetts, but actually be living in a home that was a daycare center for young people. That’s terrifying,” Sheriff [Lew] Evangelidis told 25 Investigates.

It is unclear if ICE has sent this cretin back to his homeland to face justice yet, but the residents of Cape Cod should breathe a sigh of relief that he was apprehended and Franciele Nunes was put out of business.

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