Both of these stories are on the front page of the Detroit Free Press website today.

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How did ex-priest accused of abuse get organist job at Macomb Co. parish?
3:38 PM, Jan. 27, 2011
By PATRICIA MONTEMURRI
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

The Archdiocese of Detroit said today it will investigate how a former priest, removed from the priesthood in Toledo because of abuse allegations, was able to work as an organist recently at a Macomb County Catholic parish.

The archdiocese’s action came in response to revelations by the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), a support group for abuse victims.

SNAP members revealed that Herbert Richey, who was laicized from the priesthood in 1997 in Toledo because of several allegations that he had molested boys, had recently worked as an organist at St. Margaret of Scotland parish in St. Clair Shores, and possibly other Detroit-area parishes.

The archdiocese confirmed that in a statement released after SNAP members called a press conference this afternoon in front of the archdiocese’s downtown headquarters. Moreover, archdiocese spokesman Ned McGrath said Richey had been banned from working in any archdiocese parish or school in 2002, when it was learned he’d been in similar job at St. Joseph parish in Trenton.

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Ex-hockey coach gets 17.5 years in prison for criminal sexual conduct
11:11 AM, Jan. 27, 2011
By JOE SWICKARD
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

Former Grosse Pointe South High School hockey coach Robert Bopp was sentenced this morning by Wayne County Circuit Judge Linda Parker to serve a 17 ½ - 30 year prison term for first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Bopp pleaded guilty to two counts of having sex with an underage teenager.

Last year, Bopp was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for videotaping teens engaged in sex acts at his Taylor home in 2008.

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