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Detroit Priest's Confession: I Stole Church Funds For My Inmate Lover

October 03, 2014, 6:09 AM

Patricia Montemurri reports in the Free Press that Detroit Catholic priest Timothy Kane had a sexual relationship with a Michigan prison inmate and embezzled money from the Archdiocese of Detroit's Angel Fund charity to get money for the inmate and his family, according to a confession the priest made after his arrest.

Kane's confession was read Thursday to a Wayne County Circuit Court jury by Detective Cory Williams, an investigator for the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office who arrested the priest at the St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church rectory in northwest Detroit on Feb. 6.

Kane waived his rights to remain silent after the arrest, Williams said.

According to Montemurri's account, Kane, 58, met the prisoner, Fonsha Reid, when Kane served as a prison chaplain about 14 years ago and they had a sexual relationship over the last three to four years, according to the confession. Reid was imprisoned for manslaughter from 1994 to March 2009 and then returned to prison for a felony firearm conviction from summer 2009 to mid-June 2014, according to state records.


Read more:  Detroit Free Press


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