Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Otsego, Michigan, USA · 2020

Michigan: priest Brian Stanley sentenced for attempted false imprisonment of a teenage boy

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest, St. Margaret's Catholic Church, Otsego, Diocese of Kalamazoo

Organization

Diocese of Kalamazoo

Spiritual nexus

Access to the victim arose from Stanley's position as a St. Margaret's Catholic Church priest.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2020-01-01 · guilty plea and sentencing

Michigan circuit court (Michigan Department of Attorney General prosecution). Brian Stanley pleaded guilty to one count of attempted false imprisonment for immobilizing a teenage boy with plastic wrap and masking tape in 2013, and was sentenced to 60 days' incarceration (reported elsewhere as two months) and five years' probation with 15-year sex-offender registration. One of nine convictions secured through the Michigan attorney general's clergy-abuse investigation.

Primary record

official attorney general press release prosecution summary Michigan Department of Attorney General, 'Active Clergy Abuse Prosecutions Conclude with Sentencing of Ann Arbor Priest for Criminal Sexual Conduct' (Nov. 9, 2023).: Official AG summary of the clergy-abuse prosecution docket recording Stanley's plea and sentence.
state news roundup case status compilation 'Here's where the Michigan AG's sweeping Catholic clergy sex abuse investigation stands,' Gander Newsroom.: Case-status roundup confirming Stanley's charge and sentence.

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