PENDLETON, OR -- A man convicted on Deschutes County child sex abuse charges died Wednesday, while in the custody of the Oregon Department of Corrections. Louis Apo was incarcerated at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution. The 77-year-old man was receiving hospice care at an eastern Oregon hospital when he passed away. 

He was convicted of molesting multiple girls when he lived in La Pine. At the time of his 2019 arrest, he was living in Metolius. 

Apo had been in DOC custody since November of 2020. He was serving a 25-year sentence with the earliest release date of October of 2044.