DETROIT (MI)
Detroit Free Press
By Patricia Montemurri
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer
A onetime priest at Detroit’s Holy Redeemer parish is at the center of a another priest sex abuse controversy involving the embattled Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis.
Documents obtained by Minnesota Public Radio reveal that a woman contacted the Archdiocese of Detroit in the early 1990s to complain that the Rev. Harry Walsh molested her when she was 15. Walsh was posted at Holy Redeemer parish in southwest Detroit in 1965-’67.
An Archdiocese of Detroit spokesman said today that Detroit Catholic officials should have done more to track the former Holy Redeemer parish priest after they received the same complaint in 1993, 2002 and 2011.
“We could have done better to follow up if anything was done” by St. Paul-Minneapolis Catholic officials to address the accusations against Walsh, Ned McGrath said, adding that Detroit Catholic officials are reviewing their procedures now.
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