A Vineyard Haven man being sought for deportation by the federal authorities stands accused of sexually assaulting a nine-year old child. Jose Matos, 49, was arraigned in Edgartown district court last Friday on charges of rape of a child by force, indecent assault and battery of a child under 14 and assault and battery.

Mr. Matos is a native of Brazil, but lists a Vineyard Haven address. After Tisbury police arrested him on June 13, a routine background check revealed that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency had issued a detainee order for him, which requests that local authorities hold him for 48 hours.

A detainee order filed by ICE in district court last week includes an order for deportation. Mr. Matos will remain in custody until the charges are resolved, after which he will be handed over to the federal immigration authorities. He is currently being held in the Edgartown house of correction on $20,000 bail and is due back in court on August 2.

According to the incident report from the Tisbury police department, police were first alerted to the alleged assault on May 14 by a therapist at the Children’s Cove Center in Barnstable. Det. Mark Santon interviewed the victim on June 12 at the Island Counseling Center in Oak Bluffs, during which she told police the assault occurred three years ago.

The report said the victim — who was nine at the time — was living with her mother in a basement apartment in a house in Vineyard Haven; Mr. Matos was living in another part of the house with a separate entrance. The victim’s mother hired Mr. Matos to put up kitchen cabinets in the house; when she went to the hardware store she left the child watching television. This is when the assault reportedly occurred.