Priest convicted of sexual assault on boy in Michigan church

[discocrisco01]

Source: Assoicated Press

A Catholic priest has been convicted of sexual assaulting a 7-year-old boy in 2004 in a Detroit-area church.

A Wayne County jury convicted the Rev. Joseph “Jack” Baker on Thursday on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Baker, 60, gasped as the verdict was read, The Detroit News reported.

Baker was a priest at St. Mary Parish in Wayne when Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged him in July 2019 with sexually abusing a minor.

Prosecutors alleged that Baker raped the boy in a church sacristy when the child was a second-grade student.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/religion-michigan-detroit-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-assault-ccb7064faed98a296e15f78f84fd24ca

[twodogsbarking]

1. Prosecutors alleged that Baker raped the boy in a church sacristy when the child was a

second-grade student.

[NullTuples]

2. Betting pool for which month St. Mary Parish moves funds out & declares bankruptcy?

'Cause that's the point I've reached with the Catholic Church. Even when they're clearly in the wrong and harmed a child for life, and even though one of their "sacraments" revolves around contrition, they do everything possible to avoid being held accountable.

I hope Joseph Baker gets the maximum sentence. At least that's one of them taken out of circulation.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Protect the institution above the children. Not just Catholic churches.

[Mysterian]

4. A Catholic priest tried to defraud me in a land deal

From my experience, Catholic priests are scum.