51 priests named in AG’s report detailing sexual abuse in Diocese of Grand Rapids
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has released a report detailing allegations of sexual abuse involving dozens of priests from the Diocese of Grand Rapids.
No criminal charges have been issued in connection with the report’s findings.
The 336-page report, released Monday morning, was made public to “acknowledge the reports of abuse from victims and to report the Department’s findings,” according to Nessel’s office. This is the fifth of what will eventually be seven reports detailing sexual assault allegations involving Catholic priests at the six Dioceses and the Archdiocese of Detroit.
Monday’s report names 51 priests who were alleged to have committed sexual misconduct against either children or adults since Jan. 1, 1950.
No criminal charges were filed as a result of the investigation into the Diocese of Grand Rapids. Nessel told reporters Monday that, of the cases that had complainants willing to cooperate in the investigation, many of them either included priests who have died or the statute of limitations had already expired.
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Longtime children's pastor Joe Campbell arrested on child sex abuse charges
Joe Campbell, a Pentecostal preacher who for half a century ministered to thousands of children across four states, has been arrested on child sex abuse charges, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.
Campbell was charged with one count of first-degree rape and one count of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16, according to the charging document. U.S. marshals arrested him Wednesday morning at Camp Bell, his children's camp in Elkland, Missouri, and took him to the Greene County jail in Springfield, where he was awaiting transfer to Oklahoma. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has released a report detailing allegations of sexual abuse involving dozens of priests from the Diocese of Grand Rapids.
No criminal charges have been issued in connection with the report’s findings.
The 336-page report, released Monday morning, was made public to “acknowledge the reports of abuse from victims and to report the Department’s findings,” according to Nessel’s office. This is the fifth of what will eventually be seven reports detailing sexual assault allegations involving Catholic priests at the six Dioceses and the Archdiocese of Detroit.
Monday’s report names 51 priests who were alleged to have committed sexual misconduct against either children or adults since Jan. 1, 1950.
No criminal charges were filed as a result of the investigation into the Diocese of Grand Rapids. Nessel told reporters Monday that, of the cases that had complainants willing to cooperate in the investigation, many of them either included priests who have died or the statute of limitations had already expired.
https://www.wilx.com/2025/12/15/51-pries...nd-rapids/
Longtime children's pastor Joe Campbell arrested on child sex abuse charges
Joe Campbell, a Pentecostal preacher who for half a century ministered to thousands of children across four states, has been arrested on child sex abuse charges, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.
Campbell was charged with one count of first-degree rape and one count of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16, according to the charging document. U.S. marshals arrested him Wednesday morning at Camp Bell, his children's camp in Elkland, Missouri, and took him to the Greene County jail in Springfield, where he was awaiting transfer to Oklahoma. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chi...rcna210316
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"
