Fr. Ronald J. Loeher
Included in the MI Attorney General’s 12/16/2024 Diocese of Lansing Report. Arrested in 2/1969 for soliciting a 16-year-old boy in Flint MI for “immoral purposes.” A judge, Peter Marutiak, prevented formal charges and informed Bishop Zaleski that investigators discovered that Loehner had a suitcase with pornographic material and a polaroid camera with dozens of photos of “young males involved in what apparently were previous escapades.” The judge worked with the bishop to keep the situation secret to avoid scandal and recommended Loeher be removed from the community and assigned elsewhere with supervision. Loeher was moved in 4/1969 from a parish in Owosso to one in Michigan Center. He was again “picked up” for “similar circumstances.” Sent in 8/1969 to treatment at Alexian Brothers’ Hospital in St. Louis MO. Judge Marutiak told a doctor at the hospital that “the matter has been adequately buried.” Left the priesthood 1/1/1970. In 10/1973 Loeher requested laicization to marry.
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