A former Roman Catholic priest, who was once assigned to Findlay's St. Michael Parish has turned up working in music ministry in a suburban Detroit parish--in spite of leaving the priesthood in 1992 when allegations of sexual abuse of young boys surfaced.
A group called SNAP--the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests--is demanding the Detroit diocese investigate how and why Herbert Richey, Junior was permitted to fill that capacity. Richey resigned the priesthood after what the diocese termed "substantiated allegations of abuse of at least seven boys" became known. He was formally removed from the priesthood by the Vatican in 1997.
He was a organist and music director at St. Michael in Findlay from 1994 through '96. Richey had also been assigned to parishes in Sandusky, Mansfield, Vermilion, and Wakeman.
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