The state attorney general Dana Nessel’s office published the report as part of a years-long investigation into clergy sexual abuse within Michigan’s Catholic dioceses.
The investigation, which began in September 2018, found that 48 priests, three religious brothers, one apparent former religious brother and four deacons are suspected of engaging in sexual misconduct in the Lansing diocese since 1950. The report includes victim interviews, tips, police investigations and documents seized from the diocese amid the reckoning with sexual misconduct among Catholic clergy.
Of the 56 people accused, 42 were ordained or incardinated by the diocese of Lansing. The number of offenders identified in Lansing is fewer than that reported in other dioceses elsewhere in the US – but the diocese is not one of the US’s largest.
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