Fr. Martin James Hoogterp
Died in 1998. Named publicly as accused in the MI Attorney General’s 12/15/2025 Diocese of Grand Rapids Report. In 8/2004 a woman reported to the Diocese that when she was a young teenager 1979-1980 she was sexually abused by Hoogterp at Sacred Heart in Muskegon. She said the abuse included oral sex and intercourse and that he silenced her with threats. The Diocesan Review Board noted in 2004 that there were other allegations, “probably involving a married woman.”
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