A Sanilac County judge has reversed his initial decision to grant a rapist joint custody of the child born from the act.Sanilac County Probate Judge Gregory S. Ross ruled Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 17, that 27-year-old Christopher Mirasolo should not have any custody or parenting time over the child conceived nine years ago when Mirasolo raped a 12-year-old girl.
"I want to emphasize, at the time I signed the (initial order) on Sept. 22, 2017, I did not know that the defendant had raped the plaintiff," Ross told the courtroom.
It wasn't until the mother's attorney, Rebecca Kiessling, filed objections citing the rape that Ross found out about it, he said.
The Sanilac County Prosecutor's Office never presented that information to the judge, he said. The office gave him a "routine" joint custody order consented to by both the mother and Mirasolo, he said.