MICHIGAN
Deadline Detroit
January 7th, 2016
A former priest who was defrocked over sexual abuse allegations, was one of three people killed in a car crash in Livonia earlier this week, The Detroit News reports.
Joseph Sito, 80, of Livonia, who had been a priest at several Mettro Detroit parishes, died in the Monday accident. Two people in another car also died.
The News writes that Sito was laicized by the Vatican in 2004, which means the Vatican returned him to the status of layman and severed his ties with the archdiocese.
“It’s a tragic accident,” Ned McGrath, spokesman for the local Archdiocese, according to the News reports. “I guess he had a medical event. Three people are dead. It’s a terrible thing.”
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