Fr. James R. Wysocki
Placed on leave in 2003 after the archdiocese reviewed an old allegation against Wysocki of sexual misconduct involving a minor. When the allegation was first raised, officials didn’t have enough info to proceed. It was later deemed “substantive.” Allegation was at least 15 years old and incident is said to have occurred just after Wysocki’s 1967 ordination. A second allegation of abuse in the early 1970s of teenage youth was made in 2004. Vatican ordered church trial. Permanently barred from public ministry in 2007.
- Detroit Free Press 02.03.03
- Port Huron Times Herald (MI) 02.07.03
- Detroit Free Press 04.14.03
- Detroit Free Press 06.18.03
- Detroit News 01.12.04
- Detroit Free Press 01.12.04
- Port Huron Times Herald 01.17.04
- Port Huron Times Herald 03.08.04
- Detroit Free Press 08.13.04
- WOOD 04.20.07
- Detroit Free Press 04.20.07
- Oakland Press 04.21.07
- Times Herald [Marine City MI] 04.21.07
- Archdiocese of Detroit List 06.10.19
- Archdiocese of Detroit List 06.10.19
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