MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Madeleine Baran Jul 7, 2015
Attorney Jeff Anderson released the names of seven priests deemed “credibly accused” of child sex abuse on Tuesday, as part of a settlement with a Catholic religious order.
The men served in the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate — a Catholic order of priests and brothers — and worked in various parishes and organizations in Minnesota. Five of the men are dead, and the other two men are no longer priests, according to Will Shaw, a spokesperson for the order.
One of the men had already been included on a list of credibly accused priests released last year by the Diocese of Crookston.
The disclosure was part of a settlement reached between an alleged victim of an Oblates priest and the Oblates. The man, identified in court records as Doe 30, had sued the Oblates and the New Ulm and Duluth dioceses for alleged abuse by the Rev. Vincent Fitzgerald, an Oblates priest who died in 2009. The portion of the lawsuit against the two dioceses hasn’t been resolved.
As part of the settlement, the Oblates agreed that Anderson’s law firm could release the names of the men the Oblates have deemed credibly accused of child sexual abuse, Shaw said.
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