MINNESOTA
KARE
[with video]
Karla Hult
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis says it continues to have “zero tolerance for sexual abuse.”
Officials released that statement in the wake of a rocky week, during which Father Peter Laird resigned as Vicar General and a police report came to light that suggested church leaders may have looked the other way when it came to a local priest accused of having child pornography.
Also this week, KARE 11’s media partner — Minnesota Public Radio News — aired a second story in their investigation into the archdiocese. The MPR investigation is based, in part, on an exclusive interview with a former top canon lawyer for the archdiocese, Jennifer Haselberger.
“I think what has been so important is that she was a senior official, and she was in charge of the records department. And then she also is a canon lawyer, so she brings an expertise to the story at a level of decision making that’s unusual in a story about the Roman Catholic Church,” said Madeleine Baran, an MPR Reporter.
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