CALIFORNIA
The Press-Enterprise
BY DAVID OLSON The Press Enterprise STAFF WRITER
dolson@pe.com
Published: 23 May 2012
An Ontario priest who served eight months for child molestation will not face additional jail time for violating his probation.
Rev. Alejandro “Alex” Jose Castillo will be released from jail Wednesday, May 23. He has spent two weeks in custody after his arrest May 9 for attending a party at which children were present. The party was given in his honor the day after he finished serving his sentence for child molestation.
In a Rancho Cucamonga courtroom Wednesday, Castillo admitted that he violated his probation. He could have faced up to eight years in prison if the offense had been deemed serious.
But Karen Schmauss, the San Bernardino County deputy district attorney who prosecuted Castillo, said evidence indicates that the party was a surprise and that Castillo didn’t know children would be there. The two weeks he served was sufficient, she said.
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