MINNESOTA
CBS Minnesota
Esme Murphy
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office has launched a new criminal investigation into how top officials at the Twin Cities Archdiocese handled the case of a convicted pedophile priest.
Curtis Wehmeyer is currently serving a five-year prison term for molesting a child, exposing himself to another child and possessing child pornography while he was a pastor at St. Paul’s Blessed Sacrament Church. He also faces sexual assault charges in a separate case in Wisconsin.
In January 2014, the Ramsey County Attorney announced there would not be any charges against top church leaders over how they handled the Wehmeyer case.
But WCCO sources now say the County Attorney has been re-interviewing witnesses in recent weeks about Wehmeyer’s activities at a church he worked at before Blessed Sacrament.
From 2001 to 2006, Wehmeyer was an associate pastor at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, which also has a school in West St. Paul.
For much of that time, his supervisor and pastor was Father Lee Piche — now Bishop Piche, the No. 2 official in the Twin Cities Archdiocese.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.