MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 10/03/2013
A police investigation into allegations that a Hugo priest possessed child pornography will not lead to charges against him — because the evidence was withheld by the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, according to a police report discussed in Ramsey County court Thursday.
The St. Paul police report by Sgt. William Gillet, dated Sunday, says he and Cmdr. Josh Lego met March 5 with Joseph Kueppers, chancellor for civil affairs for the archdiocese, and Andrew Eisenzimmer, who had just retired from that position two months earlier.
They requested a “white banker’s box” that they had been told was in a vault at the archdiocese and contained information about Rev. Jonathan Shelley.
An archdiocese official told them they would find computer discs with “thousands of images of child pornography” and reports that made reference to search terms such as “helpless teenage boys,” “naked boy pics” and “hard core teen boys.”
The discs came from a laptop computer owned by Shelley, the police report quoted the official as saying.
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