A Catholic priest has been convicted of sexual assaulting a 7-year-old boy in 2004 in a Detroit-area church.
A Wayne County jury convicted Father Joseph “Jack” Baker on Thursday on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Baker, 60, gasped as the verdict was read, The Detroit News reported.
Baker was a priest at St. Mary Parish in Wayne when Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged him in July 2019 with sexually abusing a minor.
Prosecutors alleged that Baker raped the boy in a church sacristy when the child was a second-grade student.
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