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Mom of 5-year-girl raped by illegal migrant on Long Island ‘losing confidence in the world’

By Brigitte Stelzer and

Steven Vago

Published Nov. 1, 2024, 8:39 p.m. ET

The distraught mom of the five-year-old girl allegedly raped by an illegal migrant on Long Island tearfully said she’s “losing confidence’ in the world — as she recounted the horrifying moments her daughter spent with the suspect under their roof.  

“I am sad. I am scared, and I’m losing confidence in the world,” the girl’s mother, Petronila, 46, told The Post in Spanish on Friday, days after Honduras national Wilson Castillo Diaz was arrested for the sickening sexual assault.

Diaz, 27, who skipped an immigration hearing after being cut loose at the US-Mexico border, was collared last week for the sickening attack that occurred inside their shared Westbury home. 

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“I am scared, and I’m losing confidence in the world,” the victim’s mother, Petronila, told The Post.Brigitte Stelzer

A criminal complaint obtained by The Post alleges 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 to be here,” the little girl told her mom hours after the alleged rape, according to Petronila.

A few days later, she bravely opened up. 

“Ma, he dragged me into his room. I was super, super scared. I told him to stop. I will tell my mother and my brother,” the shaken mom recounted through a translator. 

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The 5-year-old girl was allegedly raped inside Wilson Castillo Diaz’s basement bedroom.Brigitte Stelzer

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The family began having issues with Wilson Castillo Diaz soon after he moved in.Brigitte Stelzer

The girl was taken to a local hospital for a medical evaluation after Petronila reported the attack to police. 

Their issues with Diaz began when he moved into the basement of their Long Island home two years ago, the family said. 

Diaz, who worked as a decorator for parties, would invite the then-toddler into his bedroom two months after settling in. 

The sicko allegedly kissed her on the mouth several times in his bedroom, prompting the mom and girl’s two older brothers to tell her to stay clear of the renter, the family recounted. 

“We told her not to comply with his orders,” her older brother said outside their home. 

She may not be the only victim, according to Nassau County officials.D

“In this case, this 27-year-old man did not wake up one day an decide ‘I’m going to rape a five-year-old girl,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said at a press conference on Friday. 

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Wilson Castillo Diaz, who skipped an immigration hearing, was charged with raping a 5-year-old girl.Nassau County

“So we believe there may be more victims out there.”

Diaz illegally crossed into the US near Rio Grande, Texas in April 2014 when he was 16 as an unaccompanied minor, according to cops and federal law-enforcement sources. 

He was initially taken into custody by US border agents but later released after being served with a notice to appear before an immigration judge.

Police said Diaz then failed to show up for his immigration court hearing. 

Sources told The Post he was ordered removed in absentia back in 2016 for missing the court date. 

Diaz was arraigned last Wednesday on rape, attempted rape and endangering the welfare of a child charges. 

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Wilson Castillo Diaz allegedly slept inside the basement.Brigitte Stelzer

He was being held in the Nassau County Jail on a $200,000 cash bond. 

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman railed that Diaz should have “never been in this country.”

“I can’t stress enough how disheartening this is that this crime could occur against such a young girl who had her innocence taken away from her,” he said. 

Additional reporting by Jennie Taer