An illegal migrant pedophile from Haiti is now in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) despite a sympathetic parole board trying to save him from deportation several weeks ago.
Guerino Magloire, 52, was serving five years in prison for felony second-degree sexual assault against a child between 13 and 15 years old. He was convicted of sexually assaulting the child on March 11, 2020, just as pandemic lockdowns were starting, and he was sentenced in November the next year.
In December, Magloire was released from a Connecticut prison after his parole board mulled how to best help him avoid deportation.
The Trump administration, the parole board decided, would not be able to get its act together fast enough to deport the illegal migrant pedophile before his 30-day immigration detainer runs out. “They can’t elect a Speaker of the House,” one board member scoffed.
Magloire is currently “in ICE custody” and being held at the Wyatt Detention Center in Rhode Island, according to ICE’s online detainee location system.
During his parole hearing on New Year’s Eve, Magloire said he cannot promise he will not offend again.
"I can't say I promise It's not going to happen" His words to the parole board. He can't promise he won't offend against children again. pic.twitter.com/lhd7jyfrzk
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“I can’t say I promise that it’s not going to happen because that’s not always a thing, when you say, ‘Oh I promise,’” Magloire told the parole board. “No, I’m not going to say I promise, but I will definitely try to do my best, my best to keep myself away from situations like that again.”
Later, he said again, “I did say that I can’t promise not making a mistake.”
Magloire scored as a moderate to high risk on an evaluation used to predict whether a male sexual offender will re-offend.
Despite those red flags, the parole board released him that day from Carl Robinson Correctional Institution north of Hartford.
Magloire is in the country illegally. He came to the United States from Haiti in 1984 when he was 11 and had an immigration detainer, meaning ICE was ready to deport him as soon as he was released from prison.
His parole board lamented the situation. The board included two women, Rufaro Berry and Deborah Smith-Palmieri, and one man, Michael Pohl.
“Unfortunately the person who’s taking over our current administration, he’s going to make sure that people like yourself are deported back,” Berry told Magloire. “It’s unfortunate that I think that the moment that we say that you’re going to be granted, or if we grant your discretionary parole, the process will begin.”
“I want to be perfectly clear,” she told the convict. “If we grant your discretionary parole today, you’ll be transported to a halfway house where you’ll wait for ICE to pick you up, and you will be returned. You won’t reunite with your family. That’s not going to happen, sir.”
“Oh, so they’re going to take me right back?” Magloire asked.
“They’re going to take you right back in a matter of days,” Berry responded.
“So even though the country is in turmoil the way it is?” he said.
“That’s not our concern. That’s out of our control,” she said.
Magloire shook his head.
“Yeah,” Berry said.
Berry suggested Magloire might have a better chance of fighting his deportation detainer in prison than if he is “sent out of the country and trying to get back.”
However, another board member, Pohl, pushed back with a different perspective.
“So my take on this is that we parole him today because they can’t elect a Speaker of the House — I don’t think the Trump administration is going to be in a position in the next 30 days, which is what they hold him, to deport him,” Pohl said.
Pohl is also the chairman of the Manchester Democrats.
In the end, all three parole board members agreed to release Magloire, deciding he would have the “best opportunity to dispute this immigration detainer if he is granted discretionary parole.”
Magloire sobbed and folded his hands, saying, “Thank you, I will not disappoint you again, I will not let this happen.”
“I cannot be in here no more,” he said.
Magloire was on the sex offender registry as far back as two decades ago. In 1998, he was convicted of injury or risk of injury to or impairing the morals of children.
That did not stop him from trying to get a job as a custodian at an elementary school a few years later in 2007 and even showing up at the school, causing an uproar among parents.
Stamford police said they found evidence Magloire may have worked one day at Newfield Elementary School before his background checks were complete. The school district denied this, claiming Magloire showed up before he was hired.