Brentwood, Islip was the scene of a brutal 2019 rape of a 14-year old girl committed by an illegal alien from Honduras.
According to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, “Rito Emanuel Reconco-Castro, 28, illegally entered the United States on an unknown date at an unknown location without being admitted or paroled by a U.S. Immigration official.”
The U.S Border Patrol encountered Castro on March 29, 2014. He was issued a notice to appear and placed into removal proceedings. He was then released into the United States to roam free in our communities.
While waiting for his appearance to be removed from the United States, police said he brutally raped a 14-year-old girl on Crooked Hill Rd. in Brentwood, Suffolk County.
The South Shore Press filed a Freedom of Information Act request to get the original arrest report. The report reads that Reconco-Castro was “Engaged in sexual intercourse with another person by forcible compulsion: in that, the defendant did forcefully hold down the fourteen year old female victim while (raping her).” Graphic language describing the rape is not being published.
Castro was arrested on February 10, 2019 by Suffolk County Police officer Victoria Funez outside of a residence on Wicks Rd. in Brentwood. He was charged with rape in the 1st degree – forcible compulsion.
Castro was convicted in Suffolk County Court of attempted rape in the first-degree on June 11, 2021 and sentenced to seven years in prison. He was sent to Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, NY.
An immigration judge issued Castro a final order of removal on Nov. 20, 2024. ICE arrested Castro on Feb. 7, 2025, upon his release from Wende Correctional Facility. He served less than four years of a seven-year prison sentence. Castro will be deported from the United States back to Honduras.
Councilman Jorge C. Guadrón who represents North Bay Shore, Brentwood, and areas of Central Islip said, “I am in favor of bringing alleged criminals to justice, them going through a fair impartial trial, paying for their crimes when convicted, and deported if that is their case.”
This predatory sexual crime against a child is far from the only one committed by an illegal immigrant set free into the United States. The country is familiar with the name of the young nursing student from Georgia, Laken Riley, who was brutally raped and killed while out for a jog in February 2024. Her rapist/killer was an illegal alien from Venezuela.
Similarly, last summer in Houston, TX, two illegal aliens from Venezuela raped and murdered 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray. She endured over two hours of torture before her body was dumped in a creek.
Justice remains to be seen for these young women as the cases wind their way through the courts. For the Brentwood victim, at least there is some comfort that a conviction, prison sentence, and deportation provided some small measure of justice.