Convicted St. Paul Ex-priest Sentenced in 3rd Sex Assault Case

By Elizabeth Moh
Pioneer Press
August 17, 2015

http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_28655590/convicted-st-paul-ex-priest-sentenced-3rd-sex

Curtis Carl Wehmeyer (Courtesy of Minnesota Department of Corrections)

A former St. Paul priest, serving a five-year prison term for molesting two boys in his parish -- whose case led to criminal charges against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for an alleged cover-up -- has pleaded guilty to similar charges in Wisconsin.

Curtis Wehmeyer, 50, was charged in November in Chippewa County, Wis. He pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual assault and was sentenced Friday to three years in prison and three years of supervised release, to run consecutive to his five-year sentence in Minnesota.

According to the Wisconsin charges, Wehmeyer sexually assaulted a teenage boy who passed out after drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana, provided to him by Wehmeyer, during a 2011 camping trip at Brunet Island State Park in Estella, Wis.

Wehmeyer was sentenced in Ramsey County District Court in February 2013 for molesting two brothers from the parish of the Blessed Sacrament on St. Paul's East Side while he was pastor there. Those assaults took place in 2010. He also was convicted of possessing child pornography.

He is incarcerated at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Lino Lakes.

The Vatican defrocked him in March.

The Twin Cities archdiocese was charged in Ramsey County District Court in June with six gross misdemeanor charges for how church officials handled the Wehmeyer case. That case is pending.

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