MICHIGAN
Midland Daily News

DETROIT (AP) — A Catholic priest who was a teacher years ago at a Detroit high school has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in a child pornography case.

The government calls the Rev. Richard Kurtz a “wolf in shepherd’s clothing.” His collection of child porn was discovered in 2011 when priests were packing his belongings in Oakland County and Chicago.

The 70-year-old Kurtz got his sentence Tuesday in Detroit federal court.

In 2001, he was dismissed from University of Detroit Jesuit High School when a student accused him of sexual assault on a trip to Colorado. The family didn’t pursue charges at the time, but Kurtz was convicted 10 years later and placed on probation.