TROY (MICHIGAN)
Oakland Press
Nov. 6, 2019
By Aileen Wingblad
The trial date for the pastor of a Waterford church charged with raping a young boy 15 years ago has been rescheduled.
Jury selection will begin Feb. 10, 2020 for the case against Father Joseph “Jack” Baker, pushed back from the Dec. 9 trial date that had been scheduled in Wayne County Circuit Court. According to court records, the change came “at the request of the court.”
Baker, 57, is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct – sexual penetration with a person less than 13 years old. The crime allegedly occurred sometime between February 2004 and June 2004 at a storage room in St. Mary Catholic Church in Wayne, involving a boy who was a second-grader at the time.
Baker is currently suspended from his duties as pastor of St. Perpetua Parish in Waterford and all public ministry, as ordered by the Archdiocese of Detroit.
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