Former NM priest faces deportation as sentence ends

Posted at: 02/15/2012 10:19 AM
By: The Associated Press

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A former New Mexico priest faces deportation back to the Philippines after being released from prison on a conviction of child molestation.

Fifty-seven-year-old Jose Superiaso served as a priest in the San Francisco Archdiocese, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Taos and St. Anne Parish in Santa Fe until 2000, when he became associate rector of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports in 2003, Superiaso was arrested in California on 25 counts of child molestation from 1994 and 1995, while he was a youth minister in Daly City.

In 2005, Superiaso pleaded guilty to six counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child under 14, and was sentenced to 10 years behind bars.

Superiaso was released from prison Jan. 24.

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