Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS : COURTS : Youth Ordered Deported for ‘Moral Turpitude’

An 18-year-old Dutch youth convicted last spring of killing his guardian after suffering years of sexual abuse has been ordered by a San Francisco immigration judge to return to the Netherlands.

Immigration Judge James Vandello ruled that Joeri DeBeer was deportable for committing “crimes of moral turpitude” and for being in violation of the terms of his non-immigrant student visa.

John R. Alcorn, DeBeer’s attorney, said he would appeal the judge’s ruling to the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals, allowing DeBeer to remain in the United States pending that procedure.

The immigration judge denied a motion by DeBeer’s attorney, John R. Alcorn, to drop the deportation order. Alcorn argued that the youth’s attorney at his Orange County trial had erred in not asking the sentencing judge to recommend against deportation.

He also argued that DeBeer’s Orange County attorney, Gary L. Proctor, had inadvertently invalidated DeBeer’s student visa by taking him out of the country on a fishing trip to Mexico in July. But Proctor said that he did not request a recommendation against deportation because he would have been required to give notice to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

DeBeer’s case drew national attention when the jury that convicted him appeared at his sentencing and pleaded with the judge for leniency. DeBeer had been found guilty in the April, 1985, shooting death of Philip A. Parsons, his legal guardian. Parsons, a convicted child molester, brought the boy back with him from Saudia Arabia at the age of 13, after promising DeBeer’s mother to make him a motorcycle racing champion.