New Haven Man Guilty Of 2023 Child Sexual Assault Gets 20 Years: Judge

NEW HAVEN, CT — Convicted in November 2024 of raping a child inside a day care owned by his wife, Alberto Nieves, 66, will spend at least 10 years in prison, a New Haven Superior Court judge ruled.

Sentenced to 20 years, that term will be suspended after he serves 10 years, according to New Haven Judicial District State’s Attorney John P. Doyle, Jr.

In late 2024, a jury found Nieves, of New Haven, guilty of one count of first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor.

According to evidence presented at the trial, New Haven detectives began an investigation at a daycare center. Police were notified by state child welfare authorities that a child at the center told her grandmother and mother that she had been sexually assaulted there in February 2023. Nieves is the husband of the daycare owner.

The New Haven Police Department Special Victims Unit investigated and the state Department of Children and Families and the Yale-New Haven Hospital Child Abuse Clinic provided assistance in the case, Doyle said.

The case was prosecuted by Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Charles Johnson, with assistance from Inspector Jeffrey Cortes.