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12 December 2015

'Credible' Abuse Claim Against Priest Who Served in Ferndale

A decade after his death, Archdiocese says allegation of abuse by priest who served 20 southeast Michigan parishes “found to be credible.”  An allegation of sex abuse of a minor by a Roman Catholic priest who served as the pastor at St. James Catholic Church in Ferndale and in about 20 other southeast Michigan parishes has been “found to be credible,” the Archdiocese of Detroit said more than a decade after the priest’s death.
The Rev. David West, who died in 2004 at age 65, served in parishes before anyone made allegations of abuse by priests in what became a widespread sex scandal, the Detroit Free Press reports.

http://patch.com/michigan/ferndale/credible-abuse-claim-against-priest-who-served-ferndale-0