MINNESOTA
ABC Newspapers
By Mandy Moran Froemming
December 5, 2013
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has released a list of priests which it says have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children since 1950, including two who served at area parishes.
Ramsey County District Court ordered the archdiocese to make the list public in a ruling made by Judge John Van de North Monday.
Named was Michael Stevens, 58, who served as an associate priest at Epiphany Church in Coon Rapids from 1982 to 1988.
In 1987 Stevens pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct charge in Anoka County District Court. At sentencing in January 1988, Stevens was put on probation for five years, fined $1,000 and ordered to undergo residential treatment in New Mexico, with jail time was stayed.
According to a story that appeared in the Coon Rapids Herald, Feb. 12, 1988, prosecutor Robert D. Goodell, assistant Anoka County attorney, said the charge did involve sexual contact. According to the criminal complaint, Stevens touched a 13-year-old boy while they were at an Anoka County motel the previous July on what was described as a “camping trip”.
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