CANADA/UNITED STATES
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Summary of Case: Raoul Gauthier was ordained for Canada’s Diocese of Gravelbourg in 1933. He assisted in several Saskatchewan parishes before going on leave in 1939. He reappeared in 1940 as a hospital chaplain in the Diocese of Crookston MN, in the United States. After four years in Crookston, he was sent to a hospital chaplaincy in the St. Cloud diocese. It is unclear where Gauthier spent 1948-53. During 1953-78 he was chaplain at St. Michael’s Hospital in Sauk Centre, MN, except for a period 1968-69 when he was at a “clergy retreat center” run by the Servants of the Paraclete in Nevis. In 1979 Gauthier was charged with fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct after he admitted to fondling a developmentally disabled man. He fled shortly thereafter to Canada. He died in 1995, never having been extradited to the Unites States. Gauthier’s name was included on the Diocese of St. Cloud’s list January 3, 2014 of clergy involved in incidents of likely claims of sexual abuse of minors.
Ordained: 1933
Retired: 1979
Died: 1995
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