Guilty plea results in deportation
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By Tony Gordon Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer
Posted 7/27/2004A pair of illegal immigrants agreed not to contest their deportation, and by doing so avoided five-year prison sentences for molesting a Mundelein girl.
Cousins Antonio Reyes-Angeles, 25, and Isidro Reyes-Lorenzo, 20, pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal sexual abuse during a Monday hearing before Circuit Judge Victoria Rossetti.
The two were sentenced to five years in prison, but Rossetti agreed to put the prison time on hold in exchange for their agreement to cooperate with the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's efforts to deport them.
"They cannot assert their right to remain in the United States in any way," Assistant State's Attorney Marykay Foy said. "They either voluntarily return to Mexico, or are taken to prison."
The two admitted molesting a 10-year-old girl several times between January and April of this year in Mundelein.
Mundelein police arrested the men after the girl reported the attacks to a Hawthorn Middle School counselor who called police.
Foy said if either man is ever arrested in the United States, the five-year sentence will be imposed without provisions of time off for good behavior.
In addition, Foy said, federal law provides for a sentence of at least five years for any person deported as a result of a criminal act who re-enters this country.
