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

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

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

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

Organization

Diocese of Kalamazoo

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

Pastoral or clerical authority

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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.

Documented coercion mechanisms

parish access; physically restrained a teenage parishioner

Cited record

Sources

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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Source and tier basis: https://www.michigan.gov/ag/news/press-releases/2023/11/09/active-clergy-abuse-prosecutions-conclude Corpus classification: official-attorney-general-press-release; evidentiary role: prosecution-summary.
Retrieval: 2026-07-27 · Retrieval failed; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://gandernewsroom.com/news/politics/heres-where-the-michigan-ags-sweeping-catholic-clergy-sex-abuse-investigation-stands/ Corpus classification: state-news-roundup; evidentiary role: case-status-compilation. SHA-256 12884cf37fe3b4e095de763557e6b974383b9f977161f3f917c08ebd3516fd51
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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