Catholic Priest Suspended Following Abuse Charges

MICHIGAN
My Fox Detroit

[with video]

By BILL GALLAGHER
myFOXdetroit.com

(WJBK) – Chris Trombley says he was an emotionally troubled teen who struggled with his sexuality and the beginnings of alcohol abuse.

At 16, his parents urged him to see Father Gary Schulte for counseling. At the time, Schulte was the pastor of St. Vincent Ferrer Parrish in Madison Heights. That was in 1991.

“I had no friends. I didn’t want to be around my father,” Trombley told Fox 2’s Bill Gallagher in an exclusive interview. “I didn’t want to be around my mother, and he took the role of friend only for one reason, you know. And that was sexual favors.”

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