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Screenshots on records for each priest listed can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1123219014959302/permalink/1607614199853112/

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I am raising funds to continue the research into sexually abusive priests at St Marys in Niles, Michigan. For the last 5 years I have invested a lot of time and effort freely but to keep going I could really use a hand! If you can help at all or know someone who can please donate.


The funds will be used to make FOIA requests on the priests below, used for newspaper subscriptions, printing and filing costs, and mail correspondence to potential victims.


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All these men were priests at St Mary’s in Niles, Michigan. They are all listed on sexual abuse lists put out by the Kalamazoo or Lansing Diocese.

To be exact, for 30 years, based on this list alone, St Mary’s in Niles had child predators as the primary priests.

This truly is important information for the Niles community as so many children were baptized, went to confessions (alone in a dark room), were altar servers, attended school, mass and CCD classes with these men.

To get on these lists I assure you ample evidence must be given, many have police reports in other counties and their crimes were continuously covered by the church. I have tried to get more on the lists and despite having several victims for each the diocese is blocking me.

These priests were also marital counsellors and heard the darkest sins of many individuals in the community. Dangerous information for child predators to have access to, especially when the children were taught to respect and obey these men.

Links attached for more information.

Note once again this is not a full list, there were additional priests at St Mary’s who were accused as abusers and the reports are not complete, Google each name and read links on Bishop Accountability for more information on each.

Monsignor John D. Slowey 1966 - 1983
Robert C. Morlino 1980s
Fr. Dennis Boylan 1986 - 1988
Fr. Carl F. Peltz 2003-2006
Fr. David C. Otto 2006 - 2014

Chester Vincent Tomaszewski (date???) He was ordained in 1959 and died Oct. 21, 1987. His three last assignments were at St. Casimir in Lansing, the St. Vincent Home for Children and St. Mary in Niles.

FR. STANLEY T. STANISZEWSKI (?)
Diocese of Kalamazoo Final Report May 22, 2024
Diocesan Public Disclosure Lists | Diocese of Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo, MI

Excerpt for Carl Peltz: Instead, Peltz moved that spring to St. Mary's Church in Marietta, his fifth church in four years. Although he was almost an hour's drive from Cambridge, he continued to stay in touch with Guernsey students, and some visited him at the St. Mary Church rectory. But other students, he said, wished him dead. And he blamed students for a shooting in the rectory and accused them of threatening his life. It was May 26, 1982, and the head pastor at St. Mary was away. Peltz was asleep when he said he heard voices in the rectory hall about 1:40 a.m. Peltz later told police he heard laughter and someone say, "We're finally going to get him. He's going to die tonight." A 9 mm bullet came whizzing through Peltz's closed bedroom door. Peltz told police he fired back with a tear gas gun he had gotten from his father. According to the police report, police found vulgarities spray-painted all over the priest's office, on his vestments and on photographs of Peltz in the room. In incidents that police linked to the rectory shooting, a Marietta investigator found his family car burned four days later and received a threatening letter signed by "The Children of the Night." "We know of your desires for the young ones," the note read in part. ".... You try to hide your sordid lusts. But we hear your whimpers." Peltz told investigators he had been "run out'' of Guernsey County and that in the two years after that he had received threatening mail, had his car tires shot out and had been robbed at gunpoint. He suggested the "Children of the Night" letter was written by a Guernsey graduate, saying it resembled a Nathaniel Hawthorne story Peltz had taught in 1977. Peltz "had a way of doing things that the students disliked," the Rev. John Price, former Guernsey principal, told investigators. The police report makes no mention of interviewing Guernsey students. Investigators instead began to turn their attention toward Peltz. "Look in on Father Peltz's background," said a page of the report dated June 4, 1982. That month, Peltz checked himself into a psychiatric facility for eight days. He told police that he had
gone to the hospital after receiving a 3 a.m. phone call from a man who said: "The Prince of Darkness will consume the white satin in a fiery flame." The same page of that June 23 report noted: "This officer has yet to confront Father Peltz with the ladies clothing he has been purchasing. This officer would like to check into this aspect before confronting Father Peltz.'' The final page of the police report was filed July 9, 1982. It said a Guernsey County investigator had spoken to a number of "reliable citizens" who were Catholic
and "did not wish to become involved in this investigation. They advised that Father Peltz has very strong homosexual tendencies."
Marietta investigators who worked on the case, including Roger Phillis, a Marietta police captain in 1982, told the Gazette that part of the report appears to be missing, including the final summary of the case. Neither the car arson nor the rectory shooting ever led to an arrest. Phillis said the Marietta police chief in 1982, a staunch Catholic who is now deceased, stepped in and took over the investigation. B.L. McKitrick, Marietta's current police chief, said it's his understanding the Steubenville diocese was "uncooperative" in the investigation. "It just died at the request of the bishop," said McKitrick. "That's almost scary, isn't it?'' Phillis said he "had a
feeling that something was wrong with this case, but I've never been sure what it is. ... My sense is that things weren't exactly as presented." Mike McCauley, one of the investigators in the case, agreed. "It seems to me that this whole situation raises a lot of questions of what he (Peltz) was into at that time," said McCauley, now a psychology teacher at Marietta High School. Butler, Peltz's attorney, said Peltz was a victim in the Marietta case and that it's unfair to cast aspersions against the priest. "I suspect that Father
likes women, but he has taken a vow of chastity," said the attorney. As for the women's clothes, Peltz was not a "cross dresser," Butler said. "I suspect he probably was buying gifts.








Other Crimes:
Fr. Jerome Schmitt (https://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_fact_sheet_catholic_wrongdoers_are_praised_not_punished interrupted interrogation for murdered nun)
Fr. Robert Prevost, OSA (did not investigate child abuse claims https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/cardinal-prevost-never-investigated)
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