Illegal Immigrant Fathers Step-Daughter's Child: Milwaukee Police
Police say an Illegal Immigrant in Milwaukee fathered his step-daughter's child, thinking paternity proof would allow him to stay in the U.S
By Scott Anderson, Patch Staff | Nov 10, 2017 11:56 am ET
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MILWAUKEE, WI — A Milwaukee man, who police say was in the U.S. illegally, impregnated his 15-year-old step-daughter and later sought a paternity test, believing a positive result would keep him in the U.S., authorities reported.
Horacio Alvarado, 32 , Milwaukee, faces charges of first-degree sexual assault, repeated sexual assault of the same child and incest with a child by a stepparent, according to court records. If convicted, Alvarado faces up to 90 years in prison.
Milwaukee Police investigated a sexual assault involving a 22-year-old woman on Oct. 26, 2017, according to a criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County.
When investigators interviewed the woman, she told police that she had been sexually assaulted by her step-father, Alvarado, starting when she was 14 years old, and had been having sex an average of three times a week until she reached the age of 18, according to the criminal complaint.
The woman told investigators that the assaults and sexual encounters would happen when her mother, Linda Alvarado was at work, or late at night when she was asleep, according to the criminal complaint. The woman told investigators she became pregnant with Horacio Alvarado's child when she was 15 years old and gave birth to a baby in February 2012.
Horacio Alvarado continued to sexually abuse her after the baby was born, according to the complaint. The woman told investigators that when she was 17-years-old, her mother walked in on Horacio Alvarado having sex with her in her home. The woman told investigators that her mother sat on the bed and discussed the matter with Horacio Alvarado in Spanish, and then left the bedroom without saying anything to her.
The woman told investigators that her mother did nothing else to alleviate matters, and the sexual assaults continued, the criminal complaint stated. The woman said she kept the father's identity secret, except to her mother sometime after the baby was born, according to the complaint.
Linda Alvarado has been charged with misdemeanor child neglect after investigators say she failed to take action in the welfare of her child, according to the criminal complaint. Linda Alvarado is out on a $500 signature bond.
Horacio Alvarado was legally established as the father of the child in 2015 in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, according to court records. According to the criminal complaint, Horacio Alvarado sought the paternity test because at the time he was in the United States illegally, and believed that establishing himself as the father would allow him to stay in the country.
According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukee Police executed a search warrant for a buccal swab standard of Horacio Alvarado's DNA to be compared with the DNA of the child to re-confirm the findings of the DNA testing from the paternity action.
Horacio Alvarado is being held in the Milwaukee County Jail on a $20,000 cash bond.
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