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

Archive classification

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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

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

Cited 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.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/former-adrian-pastor-sentenced-to-10-15-years-for-criminal-sexual-conduct/512-c4fc74c8-d48e-4444-9080-42484a19b4cc Corpus classification: press; evidentiary role: press-report.
Retrieval: 2026-07-27 · Retrieval failed; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://churchleaders.com/news/2213261-michael-ronald-goble-sentenced-10-15-years.html Corpus classification: press; evidentiary role: press-report. SHA-256 6bd4cc4883cabc97b0f73a8bb30b3dd8b73047aab7a90d92b617a23bfe2bbb12
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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