PORTLAND (AP) – A Korean woman who was sentenced to eight months in jail for managing a brothel in Lisbon Falls won’t fight deportation.

Doo Ri Kim, 39, was arrested in June by local police and federal agents investigating complaints of a prostitution ring that employed illegal immigrants. Three other illegal immigrants were found at the Asia Acupressure Therapy Center.

Kim appeared in U.S. District Court on Friday and said she accepted that she would probably be deported.

“I regret all the things I have done and the inconvenience I have caused for society,” Kim said through an interpreter. “The only reason that I am here is because I lived for money too much.”

According to court records, Kim entered the country illegally in 1998, and lived in Flushing, N.Y. She moved to Lisbon Falls in January 2004.

The government charged Kim with collecting money from customers who engaged in sexual acts with three women who also were illegal immigrants from Korea. Kim made a monthly bus trip to New York to deliver money, officials said.

Charges that Kim harbored illegal immigrants were dropped.

Kim’s lawyer asked Judge D. Brock Hornby to reduce her sentence and speed up her deportation.

“The bottom line is, she is sorry for what she did, she wishes it didn’t happen and she just wants to get it over with and go back home,” Neal Stillman said.

Stillman asked Hornby to cut Kim’s sentence from the one year required by law to the seven months she has already served. Hornby reduced the sentence to eight months, saying that it was important that she pay for her crime.

The sentence reflected Kim’s criminal behavior as well as her remorse and cooperation with authorities, Horby said.