Ontario Priest Convicted of Molesting Boy Released from Jail

By Melissa Pinion-Whitt
Daily Bulletin
May 9, 2012

http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_20583194/ontario-priest-convicted-molesting-boy-released-from-jail

Rev. Alejandro Castillo, 58.

An Ontario priest convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy has been released from jail after serving eight months of a one-year sentence.

The Rev. Alejandro Castillo, 58, was released April 21 from Central Detention Center in San Bernardino, said San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller.

He had been sentenced in August to a year in jail.

Castillo was pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Ontario until mid-2010, after allegations of sexual abuse surfaced.

Five of Castillo's former parishioners accused him of sexual misconduct, with the oldest alleged abuse occurring in 2000, when Castillo worked at a church in Rialto.

Criminal charges were not filed in connection with the other four alleged victims - who include the 12-year-old boy's 16-year-old brother - due to insufficient evidence or because the allegations are too old.