July 16, 2005

NEWS IN A MINUTE: Judge orders priest to register as sex offender

DETROIT (MI)
Detroit Free Press

July 16, 2005

IN COURT
The Rev. Edward Olszewski, 72, a Catholic priest sentenced to three years of probation in 2003 for molesting a Detroit youth in the 1970s, is moving back to Michigan from Florida.

On Friday, Wayne County Circuit Judge Diane Hathaway ordered the priest be listed in Michigan's sex-offender registry and said he must remain in the state until his probation ends Jan. 30.

Olszewski was arrested in late June at his Key Largo, Fla., home for possessing two books on sexuality that investigators said violated the conditions of his probation. Hathaway ordered the priest to stay in Michigan, but she continued his probation rather than sending him to prison.

Posted by kshaw at July 16, 2005 07:56 AM