WAUSAU (WI)
Wausau Daily Herald
Nov. 18, 2019
By Laura Schulte
The Catholic Diocese of Superior has released new details about convicted sex offender Thomas Ericksen’s time as a priest in northern Wisconsin.
The Catholic Herald, which is published by the diocese, on Thursday put out a story addressing the former priest’s time with the diocese and his sentencing in September.
The article also said the Superior diocese has hired a law firm to review allegations of sexual abuse by other priests, and expects to release that information next year.
Ericksen was sentenced on Sept. 26 to 30 years in prison for molesting young boys in the 1980s. He pleaded no contest to two charges of abuse, but, in all, at least 11 men claimed they were abused by him, either by filing reports with police or in speaking with USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
He is serving his sentence at the Dodge Correctional Facility in Waupun, where he was moved from the Sawyer County jail in Hayward on Oct. 22, according to Wisconsin Department of Corrections records.
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