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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA · 2023

Michigan: priest Timothy Crowley sentenced for second-degree criminal sexual conduct

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest, St. Thomas Rectory, Ann Arbor, Diocese of Lansing

Organization

Diocese of Lansing

Spiritual nexus

Access to the victim arose from Crowley's assignment as a priest at St. Thomas Rectory.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2023-11-09 · guilty plea and sentencing

    Michigan circuit court (Michigan Department of Attorney General prosecution). Timothy Crowley pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and was sentenced to one year incarceration and five years' probation with lifetime sex-offender registration. His sentencing was the case that formally concluded the Michigan attorney general's clergy-abuse prosecution docket: 11 clergy charged, 9 convicted.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • parish rectory access to a minor

Primary record

Sources

official attorney general press release sentencing announcement 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 press release specifically announcing Crowley's sentencing as the conclusion of the prosecution docket.

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 Crowley's charges and sentence.

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