MICHIGAN
WXYZ
[with video]
Sep 29, 2014
Simon Shaykhet
(WXYZ) – The FBI has charged Father Richard Kurtz with possession, production and transportation of child porn. The former Chemistry teacher at University of Detroit Jesuit High School was well known in the community.
Feds allege he secretly recorded players on the hockey team changing in locker rooms during the 1998-1999 season. They say other priests tipped them off.
Kurtz was arrested on other charges back in 2011 for sexual assault. The arrest was based on a warrant out of Chicago.
“He was very well known and the kids loved him, he taught chemistry and other sciences. I never heard any parent or student say anything bad about Father Kurtz,” says one parent.
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