MINNESOTA
BishopAccountability.org – Assignment Record
Summary of Case: Heitzer was accused publicly in 2002 when a man told the story to the U.S. bishops gathered in Dallas of his having been sexually abused by Heitzer in 1968, when he was 11 years-old. The St. Paul and Minneapolis Vicar General stated at the same gathering that there was some indication that the archdiocese knew that about allegations that Heitzer had abused children. Heitzer died in 1969 while in treatment for alcoholism.
Ordained: 1944
Incardinated: St. Paul and Minneapolis
Died: Nov. 24, 1969
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