The Region : INS Moves to Deport Youth in Killing

The immigration and Naturalization Service has begun deportation proceedings against Joeri DeBeer, the Dana Point youth convicted of killing his legal guardian who had sexually abused him. DeBeer, 18, who was born in the Netherlands, committed a crime of “moral turpitude,” and is in violation of his non-immigrant student status, said Harold W. Ezell, Western regional commissioner for the INS. DeBeer was found guilty of manslaughter by an Orange County Superior court Jury in the April 1985 , shooting death of Phillip A. Parsons. DeBeer faced a 14-year, 8-month prison term, but judge Robert R. Fitzgerald sentenced him to three years’ probation plus the 14 months he had already spent in Juvenile Hall. His case attracted national attention when the jury that convicted him appeared at his sentencing and pleaded for leniency. The youth has been living with a Northern California family.