MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
Article by: JEAN HOPFENSPERGER , Star Tribune Updated: November 18, 2014
The Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul faces years-old sex abuse charges from his time in the Crookston Diocese.
A Roman Catholic priest from India facing charges of sexually abusing a teenage girl in the Crookston Diocese 10 years ago has been extradited to Minnesota.
The Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul arrived Monday in Minneapolis — a rare instance of a foreign priest returning to face charges of child sex abuse in the United States.
“We have been waiting for five years,” said Karen Foss, Roseau County attorney, whose office first sought extradition in 2009.
“He was taken into custody [in India] in March of 2012, and has been filing motions to appeal the extraditions since then,” Foss said.
The priest’s arrival in Minnesota came just days after a New Delhi appeals court denied his latest motion to remain in his home country.
Jeyapaul’s extradition is rare, said Patrick Wall, a former priest and investigator for the law firm of Jeff Anderson, which represented Jeyapaul’s victim in a civil case.
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