Youth in Slaying Case Wins Deportation Delay

Joeri DeBeer, who was released on probation after a leniency plea by the Orange County jury that convicted him of manslaughter for killing a guardian who sexually abused him, won a temporary reprieve in deportation proceedings here Thursday.

Immigration Judge James Vandello postponed until Nov. 20 a hearing for the 18-year-old DeBeer, charged by the Immigration and Naturalization Service with violating his non-immigrant student status by committing “crimes of moral turpitude.”

Irvine attorney John R. Alcorn said he hopes to persuade the INS in the meantime to drop the deportation order to the Netherlands on “humanitarian grounds.” The young man appeared in Immigration Court under the name Joeri Rietveld, his natural father’s family name.

David N. Ilchert, INS district director in San Francisco, said he has “no lack of compunction” in proceeding against DeBeer because “he’s committed horrible crimes.”

In April, 1985, DeBeer shot to death his legal guardian, Phillip A. Parsons of Dana Point, then drove the body to Riverside County, where he doused it with gasoline and set it afire. DeBeer returned to Dana Point and set Parsons’ apartment afire.

He said Parsons, a convicted child molester, had abused him sexually four or five times a week since bringing him from Saudi Arabia at the age of 13 to train as a motorcycle racer.

After a plea by sympathetic jurors, an Orange County judge placed DeBeer on probation and sentenced him to the 14 months he had already spent in Juvenile Hall.

Since then, DeBeer has been living in a small rural community 60 miles east of San Francisco, where Patricia de Carion, one of the jurors, has been paying his fees at a community college. It was De Carion who bailed him out on Oct. 3.