When he was arrested in San Diego Joel Wright had $2,000 in cash along with baby clothes and a bottle in his luggage.
According to ABC 7, in 2014 Wright had gone to Tijuana in an unsuccessful attempt to adopt a child.
The former Pontifical College Josephinum student went so far as to hand over an "adoption fee" in a Tijuana hotel room.
More recently, writing to a person he thought was a tour guide, he spelled out in explicit online messages what he hoped to do with an infant and a 4-year-old girl.
When asked if he had had sex with infants before, he said "I have not gone all the way before but I have made it very close in the past so I do have experience (sic)."
Fortunately, the "tour guide" was actually a federal agent.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that the seminary was shocked at the allegations.
"We're both shocked and saddened to learn of his involvement in such reprehensible allegations," Rev. John Allen, a spokesman for the school said.
Wright had apparently been expelled from the university on Friday morning because he was away without permission.
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