MINNESOTA
Fox 9
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) –
St. Paul police were meeting with lawyers for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis on Wednesday, but the meeting was not open the public or members of the media.
Archbishop John Nienstedt has voluntarily stepped aside from all public ministry during the investigation of an allegation that he inappropriately touched a boy on the buttocks during a 2009 confirmation ceremony.
Nienstedt called the allegation “absolutely and entirely false,”and the archdiocese said they “stand ready to cooperate fully with the St. Paul police.”
But during a Tuesday press conference, St. Paul Police Chief Tom Smith aired his frustrations with claims made by the archdiocese that church officials have been fully cooperative.
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