SAGINAW (MI)
WJRT TV
March 25, 2019
By Rebecca Trylch
The suspended Catholic priest who was recently acquitted of sexual assault charges involving two teenagers will face a new jury in a separate trial.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday morning in the second of three trials for suspended priest Robert DeLand.
The second case involves one of the two teenagers who testified against him last week.
In that case DeLand took the stand to deny any wrongdoing.
“No, I would not do that. I would never do that. I spent my life working with young people, and I would never do that,” DeLand told the jury on Tuesday while on trial for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old at Freeland High School.
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