Local Seminary Student Arrested On Child Sex Allegations

A central Ohio seminary student arrested in California last week on suspicion of intending to travel to Mexico to have sex with a toddler or baby is scheduled to be arraigned today. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 23-year-old Joel Wright of Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus was taken into custody after getting off a plane in San Diego.  Authorities say he had written emails to an undercover agent posing as a travel guide that he wanted to adopt or purchase a female child under age 3 in Tijuana for the purposes of having sex with her.  A school spokesperson says Wright has been expelled.  The complaint against Wright details alleged previous efforts to obtain access to small children.The complaint says Wright went to Mexico in July 2014 in an unsuccessful bid to adopt a child. A year later he communicated with the same person in Mexico and eventually revealed he wanted to have sex with children. Homeland Security began investigating Wright last November.