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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA · 2022

Michigan: priest Gary Jacobs sentenced for abusing five children in the Upper Peninsula

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest, Diocese of Marquette

Organization

Diocese of Marquette

Spiritual nexus

Access to the victims arose from Jacobs's position as a Diocese of Marquette priest.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2022-01-01 · guilty plea and sentencing

    Michigan circuit court (Michigan Department of Attorney General prosecution). Gary Jacobs admitted to abusing five children under 16 in the Upper Peninsula during the 1980s and was sentenced on three counts of first-degree and two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct to 8 to 15 years' incarceration. One of nine convictions secured through the Michigan attorney general's clergy-abuse investigation.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • parish access to five children under 16

Primary 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 Jacobs'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 Jacobs's charges and sentence.

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