DETROIT (MI)
Detroit News
Oct. 8, 2019
By Mark Hicks
A Michigan priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault in a case part of the Attorney General Office’s investigation of clergy sexual abuse, state officials announced.
The Rev. Patrick Casey, who was among several priests charged in May in connection with the probe, is the first convicted, Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement on Tuesday.
He had been accused of engaging in sexual acts during confession with a 24-year-old man who came to him for counseling in 2013.
When the man reported the incident to the Archdiocese of Detroit in 2015, Casey admitted the acts occurred and the archdiocese removed Casey from ministry, according to the attorney general’s complaint.
Casey, who was most recently assigned to St. Theodore of Canterbury in Westland, had been barred from representing himself as a priest or conducting any sort of church ministry, according to the archdiocese. His case was listed as under canonical review in Rome.
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