Paroled rebel collaborator Lori Berenson seeks expulsion from Peru
By APSunday, May 30, 2010
Paroled New Yorker seeks expulsion from Peru
LIMA, Peru — A 40-year-old New York woman paroled in Peru last week after serving 15 years in prison for aiding rebels is asking the president to commute her sentence so she can be deported.
Justice Minister Victor Garcia tells The Associated Press that Lori Berenson wrote President Alan Garcia with the request.
He said Sunday that Berenson also apologized to the people of Peru.
Cabinet officials are to meet Wednesday to discuss whether to commute Berenson’s sentence. Terms of her parole call for Berenson to remain in Peru through 2015.
If Berenson wants to take her 1-year-old son with her, she will need to get permission from the boy’s father, a former rebel from whom she is legally separating.
Neither Berenson nor her husband could be reached for comment Sunday.
