Adam Maida and his bishops stood silent on the story and Aux. Ventline was making money as a male prostitute in his $210,000 condo in Sterling Heights - with advertisements running regularly in at least three gay publications in metro-Detroit - Cdl. Even though the investigative report showed Fr. Ventline's business as a gay masseur was revealed in an exposé published in The Wanderer newspaper. Ventline will somehow reappear once again as a spokesman for the Catholic Church with prominence in local media, as he did following revelations about his life as a male prostitute published almost 19 years ago. Ventline's business as a gay masseur was revealed in an expose published in The Wanderer newspaper.ĭespite yesterday's sentence of jail time and probation, only time will tell whether Fr. Ventline avoided testimony which could have included conversations the victim described as "discomforting." He also perhaps avoided other inquiries into aspects of his homosexual life he has alluded to in public statements in more than one of his websites, which are apparently now disabled, as well as in one of many e-mails he sent to this reporter in which he declared himself a "celibate homosexual." Ventline knew he was exposed."īy taking the no-contest plea to the sexual exhibitionism, Fr. "I am concluding by the information and discovery material that it is a reasonable inference that Mr. "I did read the police report and there is nothing in the report that led me to believe that it was unintentional," Herrington said. Additionally, he must serve a year of probation with monthly personal reports beginning in March, pay $855 in court costs, comply with a court-ordered submission of a DNA sample and perform 12 hours of community service. Ventline must serve 10 days in the local jail and if he qualifies for an alternate program, may serve the time during weekends. Victim said the man was inside the bakery for seven to 10 minutes with his penis protruding from his pants. Victim said she's waited on the man a couple of times and he makes her feel uncomfortable because of the conversation topics that he brings up with her. Victim said the man was wearing a T-shirt and gray sweatpants. Victim said the opening of the man's sweatpants was wide open. Victim wasn't positive but didn't believe the man's penis was erect. approximately three to four inches depending how he moved or was standing. Ontinued to talk and act normal with them with his penis still protruding from his pants.
Ventline walking around the bakery with his "penis hanging out." She then immediately walked into the back room to notify her boss and owner of the bakery, who then walked into the counter area and was likewise shocked to see Fr. Ventline's indecent behavior "was not accidental."Īccording to the police report of the incident, a female employee labeled by police as the victim in the incident was alone in the front of the bakery when she noticed Fr. Rutkowski told Church Militant the judge ruled that evidence showed Fr. The maximum jail term for the misdemeanor is one year. Ventline be sentenced to 180 days in jail and one year of probation. Rutkowski also said testimony by two bakery employees indicated the priest was well aware of his indecent behavior during the incident, and thus requested that Fr. He told the judge the pants appeared to have been "obviously modified" to make the indecent exposure easy to accomplish.
Rutkowski said during the court proceeding that police acquired as evidence at least seven minutes of video from the business's security system which shows Fr. 26 with his sweat pants lowered to expose his penis owing to medical issues that included sleep-walking.Ĭounty Prosecutor Timothy J. Ventline's defense, offered by his attorney, Kurt Thornbladh, that he entered the bakery between 5 and 5:30 a.m. A no-contest plea is equivalent to pleading guilty.ĭuring the 15-minute sentencing hearing yesterday afternoon in Huron County District Court, presiding Judge David B. Ventline instead entered the no-contest plea on Jan.
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The case was originally set for trial on Jan. Allen Vigneron was sentenced yesterday to time in jail, probation, community service and payment of court costs after pleading no contest to a charge of indecent exposure in a bakery in downtown Bad Axe, Michigan.įather Lawrence Ventline, who once served as Vigneron's liaison to Detroit's Muslim community, was charged with indecent exposure last October following a lengthy police investigation of the crime, which occurred in a small downtown bakery on Aug.
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