Fr. William R. Taylor
Ordained in 1967 for the Diocese of Saginaw. Retired in 2007. Died 7/13/2020. Named publicly as accused in the MI Attorney General’s 6/25/2026 Diocese of Saginaw Report. Per the report, in 2021 a man alleged that Taylor sexually abused him when he was a 13-year-old altar boy in 1965, at St. Mary’s in Saginaw. The man said that Taylor took him into a storage room at the church, showed him how to masturbate, then made the boy do it while he watched and rubbed his own genital area outside his clothing. Taylor’s accuser said he remembered it happening three times and that it may also have happened to a few other boys. The Diocesan Review Board determined that there was insufficient evidence to deem the allegations credible.
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