A man convicted last month of raping a 15-year-old girl in a Rockland hotel that was being used as an emergency shelter in 2024 was sentenced Friday to serve 10 to 12 years in state prison.

Cory B. Alvarez , 27, learned his fate during a hearing in Plymouth Superior Court, after Judge Daniel O’Shea denied a request from his lawyer to stay the sentence pending an appeal.

Prosecutors had requested a sentence of 15 to 18 years; the mandatory minimum for the count Alvarez was convicted of is 10 years.

A jury convicted Alvarez on Sept. 12 of rape of a child aggravated by a 10-year difference . The Haitian national came to the United States legally through a federal program and was part of a wave of migrants given temporary housing by the Healey administration in 2024.

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