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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Macomb County, Michigan, USA · 2025

Michigan: priest Neil Kalina's second-degree criminal sexual conduct conviction affirmed on appeal

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest, Archdiocese of Detroit

Organization

Archdiocese of Detroit

Spiritual nexus

Access to the victim arose from Kalina's position as an Archdiocese of Detroit priest.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2025-01-09 · jury conviction; resentenced 2025; sentence affirmed by Michigan Court of Appeals

    Macomb County Circuit Court, Michigan, USA. A jury found Neil Kalina guilty of two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct for assaulting a 14-year-old in the early 1980s. He was resentenced in Macomb County Circuit Court on January 9, 2025, up to 15 years, and the sentence was affirmed by the Michigan Court of Appeals. One of nine convictions secured through the Michigan attorney general's clergy-abuse investigation.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • parish and pastoral access to a 14-year-old

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 the Kalina conviction among the nine.

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 recording Kalina's jury conviction, 2025 resentencing and appellate affirmance.

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