MICHIGAN
The Bay City Times
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
By DENISE FORD-MITCHELL
TIMES NEWS SERVICE
A priest removed from his post in the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw admits he was involved in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a teenager 30 years ago.
''It was wrong of me and painful to her,'' the Rev. Richard T. Szafranski wrote in a statement that Bishop Robert J. Carlson read at a press conference Monday.
Szafranski, 57, a Bay City native, is on administrative leave from Zilwaukee Township's St. Matthew Catholic Church while Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael D. Thomas investigates an allegation made by the unidentified woman.