MICHIGAN
Record-Eagle
BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A judge sentenced a former interim priest at Grace Episcopal Church to jail for trying to sexually touch a parishioner.
Accusations from three women prompted prosecutors in March to charge the Rev. Bryant Whitman Dennison Jr., 70, of Ann Arbor, with a sex crime. He eventually pleaded guilty to one count of attempted fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, a misdemeanor.
Eighty-sixth District Court Judge Thomas J. Phillips on Thursday sentenced Dennison to a 180-day jail term and two years of probation.
“The victims from our conversations with them were very satisfied with this sentence,” said Grand Traverse County Prosecutor Bob Cooney.
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