MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
by Madeleine Baran, Minnesota Public Radio,
Tom Scheck, Minnesota Public Radio
September 23, 2013
Ramsey County’s top prosecutor says he’s deeply concerned about the way the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis handled the case of a priest who was known to be a sex addict — and who was later convicted of child sexual abuse.
An MPR News investigation found that Catholic Church leaders did not alert parishioners to the Rev. Curtis Wehmeyer’s past, and didn’t immediately report allegations of abuse to police.
Wehmeyer would later plead guilty to abusing two boys in his parish. Ramsey County Attorney John Choi told MPR News today that he found the report “troubling.”
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