Report: Wright Co. Cancels Contract with Ex-Priest Who Denies Sex Abuse Accusations

By Cassie Hart
The Kaal
December 24, 2013

http://www.kaaltv.com/article/stories/S3258749.shtml?cat=10151



A former priest who denies accusations of sexual abuse from the 1960s and 1980s has been suspended from teaching sex education for Wright County.


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The Star Tribune reports Harry Walsh has taught birth control, sexual disease prevention and human sexuality for the Wright County Human Services Agency in Buffalo for 16 years.


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County Commissioner Charles Borrell said the county board voted Monday to cancel Walsh's contract effective Jan. 31, 2014. He said the board decided "without casting any guilt."


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He says officials at the Monticello school district didn't want the 79-year-old working with them.


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Walsh was one of five priests named in the 2002 archdiocese memo about parishes with "some connection to a history of clergy sexual abuse."


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Walsh issued a statement last week denying allegations of abuse.