MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Jon Collins Jun 16, 2015
Following a long extradition fight, a Catholic priest from India was sentenced in Roseau County District Court Monday for criminal sexual conduct with a 16-year-old girl a decade ago.
Joseph Jeyapaul, 60, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for the 2005 incident where
The sentence counts as time served because he had already been held in custody for 1,187 days, according to the county attorney’s office. Jeyapaul pleaded guilty to the fourth-degree sexual conduct charges last month.
Jeyapaul is being processed through the prison system and will be transferred to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation to India, according to prosecutor Heidi
Earlier charges of sexual misconduct with a different girl in 2004 and 2005 were dismissed, Davies said.
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