Fr. Joseph M. Baraniewicz
Worked in the Salt Lake diocese 1974-1990 Named publicly as accused on the Salt Lake diocese’s list 12/4/2018. Incident(s) of “holding children on lap, kissing, hugging children 10/25/1990 reported to the diocese 10/26/1990. Sent for alcohol treatment, returned to his order. Transferred to the Lansing diocese in 1/1991. Per the MI Attorney General’s Lansing report in 12/2024, it found no indication that the diocese had been informed of the allegations in 1990 against Baraniewicz. His file did show an allegation in 2000 that Baraniewicz hugged, kissed and touched the breast of a female parishioner of St. Mary’s in Adrian. Baraniewicz died 2/24/2012.
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