MICHIGAN
Detroit Free Press
By Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press September 29, 2014
A priest and former University of Detroit Jesuit High School teacher has been charged with child pornography for allegedly videotaping hockey players in the locker room during the late 1990s, the U.S. Attorneys office announced today.
Richard Kurtz, 69, formerly of Clarkston, was arrested in Missouri today and is expected to be extradited to Detroit soon to face charges that could send him to prison for up to 30 years.
This is not a first for Kurtz, who taught chemistry on and off for 25 years at the all-boys Catholic high school in northwest Detroit, starting in 1970.
According to court records, Kurtz was arrested in 2011 while living in Chicago for allegedly sexually assaulting a child in Colorado a decade earlier. After his arrest in Chicago, the government said, two Jesuit priests went through his belongings in Chicago and his home in Clarkston and discovered evidence of possible child pornography crimes.
The priests turned that information over to the FBI, which linked Kurtz to the locker room at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School.
According to court records, Kurtz videotaped high school hockey players changing in the locker room after games during the 1998-99 season. The FBI also discovered that Kurtz was transferring other child pornographic material from Clarkston to Chicago, and possessed other child porn at his home in Clarkston.
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