Complicit Clergy

Former Franciscan Brother Now Living in Michigan Named by Second Accuser of Sexual Abuse

June 9, 2020 from Lansing State Journal by Staff

Two religious orders deny any knowledge of sexual abuse by a former Franciscan brother living in DeWitt who is now named in two lawsuits. Martin Rusnak filed a lawsuit in New Jersey earlier this year naming Kurt Munn as an abuser and saying religious leaders enabled Munn for decades. In the legal complaint filed in … Read more

Lansing Diocese Failure to Investigate 1990 Sex Abuse Case Allowed Predator Priest to Abuse Again

October 18, 2019 from Lansing State Journal by Staff

The Diocese of Lansing did not handle a sexual assault case from the 1990s appropriately, according to a report commissioned by the diocese, which was released Thursday. The Rev. Pat Egan, who was found to have sexually assaulted a man in 2014, had also sexually assaulted someone in the 1990s. Read more at Lansing State Journal