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Chicago Tribune

By Christy Gutowski, Tribune reporter
7:18 p.m. CDT, July 7, 2013

A Diocese of Joliet priest who served time in prison for molesting an 8-year-old boy is not expected to fight federal immigration efforts to deport him to his native Bolivia.

Authorities said Alejandro Flores does not plan to appeal his deportation.

Flores was due to be paroled June 6 after serving part of a four-year prison sentence on criminal sexual assault charges. But immigration officials confirmed they took him into immediate custody. He remains at an undisclosed federal facility.

“We have zero say over (his deportation), and certainly wouldn’t help (him),” said Edward Flavin, a diocese spokesman. “We’re totally against him. He is restricted from any sort of public ministry.”