A licensed home daycare on Cape Cod has closed its doors following the arrest of a convicted child rapist who had been staying there. The closure of the family daycare, owned by Franciele Nunes in Hyannis, comes after 25 Investigates began looking into the presence of Andre Tiago Lucas, who is reportedly the father of Nunes’s two children.
According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Tiago Lucas, a Brazilian national, fled to Massachusetts to evade a nine-year prison sentence in his home state of Minas Gerais for the rape of a 13-year-old girl. ICE agents apprehended him in Bourne last October.
Nunes allowed her license from the state Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) to expire in March. Records indicate that Nunes had been licensed for 3 years.
Worcester County Sheriff Lew Evangelidis, a vocal proponent of immigration reform in Massachusetts, expressed his alarm upon learning of the situation.
“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