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DETROIT –
Prosecutors are seeking a 14-year prison sentence in a child pornography case involving a priest who was a teacher years ago at a Detroit high school.
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 is returning to federal court for his sentence Tuesday.
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.
He was living in Missouri last year when he was arrested in the child porn case.
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