Attorney General Dana Nessel's office investigated sexual abuse allegations against roughly 44 priests as part of its investigation into the Diocese of Marquette's handling of clergy sexual abuse allegations, according to the first of seven reports released by Nessel's office Thursday.
Of the 44 priests accused in the Marquette diocese, 32 were dead by the time Nessel's office received the complaint and other cases were barred from prosecution by a statute of limitations law that requires charges to be issued within a certain time period after an alleged crime, the 154-page report said.
Two of the 44 accused priests have been charged by the attorney general's office and a third was charged in 2021 by the Chippewa County prosecutor. Nessel's charges have resulted in one conviction stemming from the Marquette diocese, while the office is working to extradite a priest in the second case from India.
