The distraught mother of the five-year-old girl allegedly raped by an illegal migrant on Long Island tearfully said she is “losing faith in the world” – as she recounted the horrific moments her daughter spent with the suspect under their roof spent.
“I’m sad. I am scared and I am losing faith in the world,” the girl’s mother, Petronila, 46, told The Post in Spanish on Friday, days after Honduran national Wilson Castillo Diaz was arrested for the sickening assault.
Diaz, 27, who skipped an immigration hearing after being let loose at the US-Mexico border, was collared last week for the sickening attack that took place at their shared Westbury home.
A criminal complaint obtained by The Post alleges that he raped the girl in his bedroom on the afternoon of Oct. 16 and also showed her pornographic images on his TV.
“Ma, I don’t want him here,” the little girl told her mother hours after the alleged rape, Petronila said.
A few days later she bravely opened up.
“Ma, he dragged me to his room. I was super, super scared. I told him to stop. I will tell my mother and my brother,” the shocked mother said through an interpreter.
The girl was taken to a local hospital for medical examination after Petronila reported the attack to police.
Their problems with Diaz began two years ago when he moved into the basement of their Long Island home, the family said.
Diaz, who worked as a party decorator, invited the then-toddler to his bedroom two months after he settled down.
The sick woman reportedly kissed her on the lips several times in his bedroom, prompting the mother’s two older brothers and the girl to tell her to stay away from the tenant, the family said.
“We told her not to follow his orders,” her older brother said outside their home.
Nassau County officials say she may not be the only victim.
“In this case, this 27-year-old man did not wake up one day and decide, ‘I’m going to rape a five-year-old girl,’” Nassau County Police Chief Patrick Ryder said at a news conference Friday.
“So we think there may be more victims.”
Diaz illegally entered the U.S. near Rio Grande, Texas, as an unaccompanied minor in April 2014 at age 16, according to police and federal law enforcement sources.
He was initially taken into custody by US border agents, but was later released after being served with a notice to appear before an immigration judge.
According to police, Diaz subsequently failed to show up for his immigration court hearing.
Sources told The Post that he was removed in absentia in 2016 after missing his court date.
Diaz was charged last Wednesday with rape, attempted rape and endangering the welfare of a child.
He was being held in the Nassau County Jail on $200,000 bond.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman denounced that Diaz “should never have been in this country.”
“I cannot emphasize enough how disheartening this is that this crime could happen against such a young girl whose innocence was taken from her,” he said.
Additional reporting by Jennie Taer
