56 clergy — including 48 priests — accused of sexual abuse dating back to the 1950s in Michigan Catholic diocese
State Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office issued the report as part of a five-year investigation into clergy sexual abuse within the Great Lakes State’s Catholic dioceses.
Of these, 11 Catholic clergy abuse cases had charges filed and nine have resulted in convictions as a result of its statewide probe.
Vincent DeLorenzo, a former priest, was sentenced to one year in jail and five years of probation in June 2023 for attempted first-degree criminal sexual assault of a 5-year-old boy, who he allegedly molested after a family funeral.
Joseph Comperchio, a Catholic schoolteacher and church musician who presented himself as a religious brother, was sentenced in August 2021 to up to 30 years behind bars for sexually abusing four children. He died in prison in 2022.
The report is just one of seven Nessel has promised to release for each Catholic diocese in Michigan. Reports for the diocese of Marquette, Gaylord and Kalamazoo have already been made public.
“These reports are important, not just because we made a promise to the survivors years ago, but because victims, especially in cases like these where the assaults were perpetrated by entrusted members of a community, are often silenced — in some cases for decades or a lifetime,” Nessel said in a statement.
All of the remaining reports are expected to be completed by 2026.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/17/us-news/56...iocese-ag/
State Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office issued the report as part of a five-year investigation into clergy sexual abuse within the Great Lakes State’s Catholic dioceses.
Of these, 11 Catholic clergy abuse cases had charges filed and nine have resulted in convictions as a result of its statewide probe.
Vincent DeLorenzo, a former priest, was sentenced to one year in jail and five years of probation in June 2023 for attempted first-degree criminal sexual assault of a 5-year-old boy, who he allegedly molested after a family funeral.
Joseph Comperchio, a Catholic schoolteacher and church musician who presented himself as a religious brother, was sentenced in August 2021 to up to 30 years behind bars for sexually abusing four children. He died in prison in 2022.
The report is just one of seven Nessel has promised to release for each Catholic diocese in Michigan. Reports for the diocese of Marquette, Gaylord and Kalamazoo have already been made public.
“These reports are important, not just because we made a promise to the survivors years ago, but because victims, especially in cases like these where the assaults were perpetrated by entrusted members of a community, are often silenced — in some cases for decades or a lifetime,” Nessel said in a statement.
All of the remaining reports are expected to be completed by 2026.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/17/us-news/56...iocese-ag/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
