Fr. Terrence M. Healy

Ordained for the Diocese of Marquette. In the mid-1970s opened a foster home for boys. Leave of absence in late 1977. May have gone to the House of Affirmation for treatment. Applied in 1982 for incardination into the Lansing diocese, granted in 1985. Removed in 1987. Sent to St. Luke Institute in MD for evaluation and treatment. Stayed at a “host” parish while awaiting a bed at St. Luke’s. In 12/1987 pleaded no contest in Livingston County to charges that he sexually abused a 15-year-old boy; spent 4 1/2 years in prison. Sought and was granted laicization in 1992; told Bishop Povish he was engaged to marry a woman. Allegation in 1993 of abuse of a 19-year-old male, who had gone to him for counseling, 20 years prior. In 2012 two more men alleged abuse as boys in Lansing. Healy admitted to sex with 18 boys, the youngest age 14. The Marquette Diocese announced in 9/2019 that it had received a report in 1996 of abuse by Healy 1968-1972. Allegation in 10/2019 that Healy abused many children who lived with him in the early 1970s while awaiting foster care. Allegations from 4 more men in 2018-2020 of abuse as boys by Healy. Included on the Lansing diocese’s list 9/27/2019. Died 1/1/2019. Included in the MI A.G.’s 10/2022 Marquette Diocese report. Included in the MI A.G.’s 12/2025 Lansing Report. In 2020 a woman reported that she was she was sexually and physically abused by Healy when she was age 13 in about 1983, at Holy Family in Ovid MI. She described sadistic behavior toward her by Healy. She said she tried to tell two other priests, who dismissed her.  She said that Healy also abused her brother, ages 11-14, and a cousin. The cousin is said to have told her that, during a trip, Healy tied him up, beat him and raped him.