A superior court judge increased the bail on Monday for a man accused of raping a 15-year-old at a Rockland shelter for migrant families, pausing his deportation back to Haiti to allow the criminal case against him to go forward, officials announced.

Cory Alvarez, 26, has been indicted on one count of aggravated rape of a child with a 10-year age difference and one count of rape of a child by force, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s office. 

Prosecutors requested that bail for Alvarez be increased to $1 million. During a hearing on Monday, a judge allowed cash bail to be set at $150,000. Immigration officials had intended to deport the 26-year-old back to Haiti on Thursday, but prosecutors argued that should Alvarez leave the country, it would “halt the case indefinitely” and prevent resolution for both the victim and Alvarez himself, according to the DA’s office.

Prosecutors allege that on March 13, Alvarez raped a 15-year-old girl at the Comfort Inn at 850 Hingham St. in Rockham. Alvarez was living at the hotel, part of a state program to house migrant families. 

When Rockland police responded to the report of a sexual assault at the hotel, they encountered the teenage girl, who was taken to a South Shore Hospital for treatment. 

“As a result of their investigation, Rockland police developed probable cause to arrest Alvarez, and he was taken into custody,” the DA’s office said. 

At a dangerousness hearing earlier this year, Alvarez was determined not to be a danger and bail was set at $500, which he posted the same day. He was taken into custody months later by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a pretrial conference in August and has since been held in the ICE unit within the Plymouth County House of Corrections, according to the DA’s office. 

With deportation proceedings against Alvarez paused following the judge’s Monday order, he will next appear in court related to the charges against him on Nov. 13.