SAGINAW (MI)
WJRT-TV (ABC12)
February 12, 2021
By Terry Camp
DeLand could be released from prison in late April
A suspended Saginaw-area priest who has spent nearly two years in prison after pleading no-contest to sex crimes has been granted parole on his first attempt.
Robert DeLand was sent to prison for the alleged sexual assault of a teen in 2019. But as early as April, he’ll most likely be free.
He was known as Father Bob, a popular Catholic priest in the Saginaw Diocese. That changed when DeLand was arrested in February 2018 and charged with several counts of criminal sexual misconduct.
There were three victims in three separate cases — two 17-year-old males and a 21-year-old man.
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