MINNESOTA
BishopAccountability.org – Assignment Record
Summary of Case: DeSutter has been accused of the sexual abuse of several boys, and of inappropriate sexual advances against a young adult male parishioner. The archdiocese knew of accusations against him in at least 1989. The earliest known incidents are alleged to have happened in the late 1970s. Two others are said to have occurred in 1992. DeSutter was sent for psychological evaluations by the archdiocese in 1989, and again in 1992. He contact with minors was restricted after the 1992 evaluation, but he was eventually allowed to work as a weekend fill-in priest. He retired in 1994 and relocated in the late 1990s or early 2000s to Mesa, Arizona.
Ordained: 1954
Incardinated: St. Paul and Minneapolis
Retired: 1994
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