ILLINOIS
NBC Chicago
A Diocese of Joliet priest who sexually abused a boy for five years was released on parole Thursday.
Alejandro Flores, 40, served around 80 percent of the 4-year sentence he agreed to in a 2010 plea deal.
Flores must now register as a sex offender, according to the Joliet Herald-News.
The priest had befriended the boy’s family while assigned to St. Mary’s Catholic Church in West Chicago.
Flores was ordained in 2009. In January, when the boy’s mother alerted the Joliet archdiocese to the alleged abuse, Flores was removed from the parish. Two days later, he leaped from the balcony of a Joliet church in a suicide attempt, according to church officials.
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