ILLINOIS: Child molester tries to avoid jail by asking judge to deport him (Judge Says OK)

Northwest Herald

WOODSTOCK, Illinois -- It’s not every day that an illegal immigrant asks a federal judge to be deported back home, but Mexico might be a better option than a potential 30-year prison sentence in the United States.

Prosecutors on Tuesday said a Cary teenager, while free on bond, asked a federal judge to deport him so he could duck criminal sexual-abuse charges in McHenry County for allegedly abusing a 4-year-old girl in March 2006.

A federal judge granted Jose Pablo Vallejo’s deportation request this month, but McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather on Tuesday increased Vallejo’s bond to $750,000 to prevent the deportation.

He then was taken to the McHenry County Jail.

“The defendant shouldn’t be able to escape the consequences and punishments of his actions by voluntarily returning to Mexico,” said Tiffany Davis, a McHenry County assistant state’s attorney.

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Posted by tyne at January 18, 2007