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	Complaint against Former Greenbush, Minn., Priest Unsealed By Stephen J. Lee Grand Forks Herald July 9, 2009 http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/account:login/ A 2006 criminal complaint against a former Greenbush, Minn., priest was unsealed today in Roseau County District Court, revealing the priest was to face charges for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in the church office in 2004 that could have put him in prison for decades if he had been convicted. But the Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul already had left the Catholic Diocese of Crookston and the United States for his native India more than a year before the complaint was filed. The Herald reported last week that the alleged victim, now 19, filed July 2 a civil law suit against the Diocese seeking more than $50,000 in damages, alleging it had authority and supervision over Jeyapaul, according to the criminal complaint filed in Roseau District Court. ... Jeyapaul’s address, as of early 2007, was St. Joseph’s Church, Kalhatti Via Indunager, in Nigris, India, Hanson said. But the extradition process is lengthy and costly and must be done through the federal Department of Justice, she said.
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