MINNESOTA
Lillie News
By: Patrick Larkin
Following a clergy sexual abuse scandal that rocked the East Side’s Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, the priest in question, Curtis Wehmeyer, has been officially been removed from the clergy.
According to a statement from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis issued Wednesday, March 11, the Vatican has defrocked Wehmeyer.
Archbishop John Nienstedt said that “the effect of this decision is that Wehmeyer has been permanently and definitively barred from presenting himself as a priest or exercising priestly ministry.”
In February 2013, Wehmeyer was convicted in Ramsey County of 20 felony charges for sexually abusing two boys and for possessing child pornography. He was sentenced to 60 months in prison and is incarcerated at the state correctional facility in Lino Lakes.
Additionally, the 50-year-old Wehmeyer was charged last November in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, with second-degree sexual assault for an alleged incident that occurred in 2011.
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