MINNESOTA
WDAZ
[with video]
By Hayley Crombleholme on Apr 17, 2016
Crookston, MN (WDAY/WDAZ TV) – A woman has returned to Minnesota this week – hoping to find and help victims who suffered abuse at the hands of a priest who pled guilty to sexual abuse in 2015.
This is after she herself became a victim.
After more than a decade, old wounds have reopened for Megan Peterson
“I was horrified for one and absolutely shocked, and felt entirely revictimized all over again, that we could go through all of this for the last ten years, get him extradited, get him convicted, and that the Vatican and the bishop in India is going to allow this man back into ministry,” said Peterson.
Joseph Jayapaul was convicted of sexual abuse stemming from incidents in 2004 to 2005 while he was serving as a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Crookston.
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