Seminary Student Admits to Indecency
Posted/updated on: September 29, 2010 at 2:37 am
TYLER (AP) – A seminary student in Tyler has pleaded guilty to two counts of indecency with a child over an alleged relationship with a 16-year-old girl who was in a church youth group. Jorge Ivan Sanchez on Monday pleaded guilty to both second-degree felony charges. Attorneys for Sanchez, who faces up to 20 years in prison, are seeking probation as part of the plea agreement. Sentencing is Oct. 15.
The Roman Catholic seminary student, who was charged in April, faces deportation to his native Colombia if the plea agreement is accepted. Sanchez remains in custody. He had been studying at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler, after previous studies in Houston at the University of St. Thomas seminary.
