Defrocked Long Island Priest, Sex Offender Found Dead in Saratoga Jail

By Steve Hughes
Times Union
February 27, 2018

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Former-Long-Island-priest-sex-offender-found-12713635.php

Michael Hands, a former Catholic priest, stands outside of a courtroom in Mineola, N.Y. Tuesday, April 23, 2002 where he will be sentenced to sexually abusing a teen-age boy in his rectory. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)

A former Long Island Catholic priest and convicted sex offender was found dead in his Saratoga County jail cell after an apparent suicide on Tuesday, just days before he was to be sentenced to state prison for molesting a child.

Michael L. Hands, 51, admitted in September to twice molesting a child younger than 17 in July in Charlton.

A former Long Island Catholic priest and convicted sex offender was found dead in his Saratoga County jail cell after an apparent suicide on Tuesday, just days before he was to be sentenced to state prison for molesting a child.

Michael L. Hands, 51, admitted in September to twice molesting a child younger than 17 in July in Charlton.