UPDATE:: Defrocked Long Island priest, sex offender found dead in Saratoga jailA defrocked former Catholic priest who lives at a “retreat” in Washington County was ordered held for lack of bail Tuesday on charges that accuse him of sexually abusing a teenage boy in Saratoga County earlier this year.
A former Long Island Catholic priest and convicted sex offender was found dead in his Saratoga County jail cell after an apparent suicide on Tuesday, just days before he was to be sentenced to state prison for molesting a child.
Michael L. Hands, 51, admitted in September to twice molesting a child younger than 17 in July in Charlton.
He was set to be sentenced this week for two counts of third-degree criminal sex act. He faced up to eight years in prison.
Michael
R. Hands, 51, a Level 3 registered sex offender from Easton, was sent
to Saratoga County Jail for lack of $75,000 cash bail or $150,000 bail
bond. He was arraigned before Saratoga County Judge James Murphy on a
nine-count indictment for alleged sex crimes with a child in Charlton
earlier this year.
Hands is a
registered sex offender because of a 2003 sodomy conviction in Suffolk
County, which occurred when he was a Catholic priest on Long Island in
the early 2000s. He was removed from the priesthood after state records
show he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy.
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