The Michigan Attorney General’s office has issued charges against five men who were priests for sexual assault, including one in the Kalamazoo Diocese.
According to the Michigan State Police, their investigation revealed that the Reverend Strick Strickland from the Second Baptist Church paid four victims under the age of 17 to have sex with him at his family home.
The MSP’s Computer Crimes Unit, Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force says on Thursday that their investigation into 25-year-old Richard Bilicki began after the Michigan Department of Corrections seized cell phones from him.
The Michigan State Police say Wednesday that they began their investigation after detectives were notified of a large amount of child porn being downloaded.
The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office says that detectives from their office as well as the Marshall Police Department began investigating sexual assaults against a 16-year-old girl that allegedly occurred in both Marshall, and Bedford Township.