Fr. Jerome M. Heyman
Named publicly as accused by the MI Attorney General in its Diocese of Kalamazoo report 5/22/2024. Assigned in the diocese 1991 until his retirement in 2006. Accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward women. Accused in a 2005 letter to Bishop Murray of making sexual advances a woman and her 12-year-old granddaughter. Heyman allegedly tried to kiss the girl and said that he wished he was 60 years younger. Heyman agreed to resign that year after his 75th birthday, the normal retirement age. In 2011 another woman reported to the Diocese sexual misconduct toward her by Heyman. (Heyman was in residence at that time at a Home Glen IL parish, in the Diocese of Joliet.) The Diocese informed Heyman’s Order and asked that he “curtail his trips to the Diocese of Kalamazoo” and undergo counseling. Heyman died in 2/2023, at age 91.
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