Wilson Fabian Mizhirumbay Granda
Introduction
Wilson Fabian Mizhirumbay Granda, a 23-year-old man from Holliston, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty on October 27, 2026, in federal court in Boston to sexually exploiting a minor — a charge carrying up to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. Court records say that between August and September 2023 he coerced a minor victim to travel to Massachusetts and engage in sexually explicit conduct with him, met her on a social media site while knowing she was underage, lied about his own age, and recorded himself having sex with the child on a number of occasions. He was already a convicted child rapist when the federal charge issued.
Background Information
Granda was charged in September 2026 and is currently in Massachusetts state custody on an unrelated criminal case. His criminal history is the context the federal plea sits on: he has prior state convictions in Hampshire County Superior Court for rape of a child and enticing a child under 16, for which he was sentenced in May 2024 to four years and one day in state prison followed by five years of probation. He also has pending charges in Norfolk County for rape of child with force, rape of child, and enticing a child under 16 related to another minor victim. The case was worked by U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley’s office and the FBI’s Boston Division with the assistance of eight local police departments and five county district attorneys’ offices.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Pleaded guilty; sentencing pending. Granda pleaded guilty on October 27, 2026, to one count of sexual exploitation of children, and the plea is a court-record admission. Sentencing before U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs is scheduled for January 20, 2027; the Norfolk County charges remain pending and are presumptively unproven.
The conduct to which he pleaded is set out in the announcement: in August and September 2023, Granda coerced a minor victim to travel to Massachusetts and engage in sexually explicit conduct. He met the child on a social media site, knew she was underage, and lied about his own age to get past the platform’s and the child’s defenses. He then recorded himself having sex with the minor victim on a number of occasions — the recording that converts the conduct into the federal exploitation charge. The victimization described in the federal case is separate from the Hampshire County child-rape case that already produced a conviction and from the pending Norfolk County case involving another child.
The exploitation count he pleaded to provides for a sentence of up to 30 years in prison, at least five years to a lifetime of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000, with the actual sentence to be determined by the court under the statutes and sentencing guidelines at the January 20, 2027 hearing.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The guilty plea was announced as part of the District of Massachusetts’ Project Safe Childhood docket, the Justice Department’s nationwide initiative against child sexual exploitation, and the breadth of the assisting agencies — Holliston, Scituate (R.I.), Amherst, Westminster, Medway, Worcester, Millis, and UMass Lowell police, plus the Middlesex, Hampshire, Northwestern, Norfolk, and Worcester County district attorneys — reflects how many jurisdictions his conduct touched. The consequences already attached are severe: a federal exploitation conviction with a prior child-rape conviction behind it, a sentencing exposure of up to 30 years, and a second pending child-rape case awaiting him in state court.
Current Status
Granda pleaded guilty on October 27, 2026, and awaits sentencing before Judge Burroughs on January 20, 2027, while remaining in Massachusetts state custody on an unrelated case and facing the pending Norfolk County charges for rape of child with force, rape of child, and enticing a child under 16. This page will be updated when his federal sentence is imposed.
Impact on Their Career/Life
At 23, Granda faces a sentencing structure that could keep him in prison into his forties or fifties between the federal exploitation sentence and the state cases, and any federal sentence will be followed by supervised release measured in decades, if not a lifetime term. A federal child-exploitation conviction layered on state child-rape convictions permanently bars him from any role involving children and carries mandatory sex-offender registration for life.
Sources
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts, “Holliston Man Pleads Guilty to Sexual Exploitation of Children,” November 3, 2026. source