Mexico sex offender sentenced to 3 years in U.S. prison
BY RON SYLVESTER
The Wichita Eagle

A 43-year-old Mexico citizen will spend three years in a U.S. prison as an illegal immigrant who returned to the U.S. and failed to register as a sex offender.

U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten sentenced Armondo Beltran-Gonzalez today in the first Kansas conviction under the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection Act.

Beltran-Gonzalez will spend more time in prison on the federal charges than he did for asking a 13-year-old for sex on Aug. 23, 1994. He pleaded guilty the following April to aggravated indecent solicitation of a child in Sedgwick County District Court and landed an 18-month suspended prison sentence. He spent 24 months on probation, according to court records.

But the conviction required Beltran-Gonzalez to register as a sex offender.

The U.S. deported Beltran-Gonzalez in 2005. He was back in Wichita by August 2006 and failed to register with the Sedgwick County sheriff as a sex offender.

A federal indictment charged Beltran-Gonzalez on March 21.

"When he is released from prison he will be deported again," U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren said. "And he is banned for life from becoming a U.S. citizen."

The Walsh Act makes it a federal offense to fail to register as a sex offender when required to do so by state or federal law. The act is named for the son of John Walsh, host of Fox's "America's Most Wanted." Adam Walsh was abducted and murdered in 1981.

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