A former Michigan priest has been sentenced to a yr in jail after pleading responsible to sexually abusing an altar boy greater than three a long time in the past.
A Washtenaw County choose sentenced Timothy Crowley, who should additionally serve 5 years of probation, on Wednesday, The Ann Arbor Information reported.
Crowley, 74, pleaded responsible in August to 2 felony counts of second-degree prison sexual conduct beneath a plea settlement that dismissed two counts of first-degree prison sexual conduct.
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He was charged for sexual conduct with a youth alleged to have taken place between 1986 and 1990 at Jackson’s St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church, Hillsdale’s St. Anthony Catholic Church and Ann Arbor’s St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church.
A 74-year-old former priest from Michigan has been sentenced to a yr in jail for sexually abusing an altar boy over 30 years in the past.
The sufferer testified that he was a 10-year-old altar boy for Crowley in 1982 at St. Mary’s in Jackson when his household inspired him to spend time with the priest as a result of they believed he was function mannequin.
Whereas spending time with Crowley, the priest would contact him barely whereas encouraging him to sleep in mattress collectively, including “it was regular and pure,” the sufferer beforehand testified.
After the sufferer’s household contacted an lawyer in 1993, the Lansing Diocese paid $200,000 to Crowley’s accuser. Crowley was defrocked in 2015.
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Earlier expenses within the case have been dismissed in October 2019 after a choose discovered they didn’t abide by the alleged crime’s then six-year statute of limitations. State prosecutors appealed that call and an appeals court docket agreed to reinstate 4 of the eight sexual misconduct expenses Crowley initially confronted.
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