SANTIAGO (CHILE)
Associated Press
December 10, 2018
By Eva Vergara
An Irish-born priest of the Legion of Christ religious order has finished serving a four-year sentence for sexually abusing a minor and may have to leave the country within days, his lawyer said Monday.
Attorney Cristian Murga said the prison system is expected to certify completion of the sentence “within days,” which would trigger an earlier government decree giving the Rev. John O’Reilly 72 hours to leave Chile.
Murga left open, however, the possibility that O’Reilly could take some unspecified legal action before being expelled.
In 2014, O’Reilly was convicted of sexually abusing a minor while he was a chaplain at a prestigious school operated by the Legion in Santiago. The court also banned him from any job near children and ordered that his genetic data be added to a registry for abusers.
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