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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Adrian, Michigan, USA · 2026

United States: former Adrian, Michigan pastor sentenced for sex crimes against boys at his church and its juvenile campus

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor of the now-defunct Church of the Good Shepherd, Adrian, Michigan, with access to boys through the church-affiliated Maurice Spears Juvenile Campus

Organization

Church of the Good Shepherd, Adrian, Michigan

Spiritual nexus

Multi-victim abuse of boys given to his supervision through his church and its affiliated juvenile campus, over a period spanning at least three separate criminal cases.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2026-02-06 · no-contest plea and sentence

    Lenawee County, Michigan — circuit court. Michael Ronald Goble, 77, was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison after pleading no contest to three counts of criminal sexual conduct against young boys, at least one specifying a victim under 13; five further counts from the same investigation were dismissed at sentencing. He also faced an outstanding Louisiana warrant for child molestation and was to be extradited to face those charges.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral and institutional access to young boys through a church-affiliated juvenile facility

Primary record

Sources

press press report WTOL, Feb 2026.

Sentence, plea, and case detail.

press press report Church Leaders, Feb 2026.

Juvenile-campus access and prior charge count.

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