CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Times
Associated Press
A former Ohio seminarian was sentenced Friday to nearly 16 years in prison for trying to adopt or purchase infants from Mexico to sexually molest them.
Joel Wright, 23, pleaded guilty in April to a federal charge of attempted enticement of a minor. The former student at Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, admitted that he wrote sexually explicit emails in which he described his desire to assault children, from infants up to the age of 4.
Wright placed Craigslist ads for a Tijuana tour guide starting in November and told someone who responded that he wanted a girl under 3 years old for sex. In one message, he wrote that he picked up infant pain-relief medication and a “pretty outfit which I think should fit the 1 or 2 year old.”
The person he contacted was cooperating with federal agents. Wright was arrested when he flew into San Diego in January.
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