The mother of Mollie Tibbetts has taken in the teenage son of Mexican immigrants who were close to the daughter’s alleged killer, according to a report published Friday.

Laura Calderwood told The Washington Post that she brought 17-year-old Ulises Felix into her home when his parents left the small town of Brooklyn, Iowa, following the arrest of Cristhian Bahena Rivera in August.

Although his parents fled the town amid seething anti-immigrant rhetoric, Felix wanted to stay behind and finish high school.

Rivera, an illegal immigrant, is accused of abducting Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, in July while she was out on a run, killing her and leaving her body in a cornfield to rot.

According to the paper, Felix’s parents worked alongside Rivera at the local Yarrabee Farms for years.

Felix told the paper that his parents “took care” of Rivera “for a while,” saying that his mother fed the 24-year-old every day.

Rivera and Felix’s cousin Iris Monarrez also have a child together.

After Rivera’s arrest, Felix’s parents left town for Illinois. Felix, who is American, wanted to stay in the town.

That’s when Calderwood’s son and Mollie’s brother Scott, who played on the football team with Felix, asked if they could take him in.

Calderwood, 55, thought that her daughter would have wanted her to care for Felix and agreed.

Mollie Tibbetts’ father, Rob Tibbetts, said his daughter would have “vehemently opposed” anti-immigrant views espoused by politicians in the aftermath of her death and said that she would have found them profoundly racist in a column for the Des Moines Register.

Both of her parents rejected the politicization of their daughter’s murder.

In The Washington Post article, Calderwood described Mollie’s disappearance and killing as “a horror.”

“Mollie’s death was horrific,” Calderwood said. She was stabbed “in the chest. And I know there was one in the skull.”

Rivera allegedly confessed to the killing, claiming he’d blocked out the actual slaying but came to and found Tibbetts’ body in his vehicle.

He’s pleaded not guilty and faces life in prison.