MINNESOTA
Winona Daily News
Extensive personnel files of 14 priests “credibly accused” of abuse will become public today
By Jerome Christenson
What the bishops knew of the activities of abusive priests, and when they knew it, will become public knowledge today [Oct. 7].
The personnel files of 14 priests “credibly accused” of sexual abuse who at one time were assigned to parishes in the Winona diocese are scheduled to be released following a news conference in Rochester Tuesday morning. Nine of the 14 priests on the list are deceased, two have been laicized, and two are pending laicization. None are in active ministry.
The files were obtained and are being released by Anderson & Associates, attorneys for the plaintiff in a suit brought against the Diocese of Winona and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota’s Ramsey County in June 2013.
The suit was the first to be brought under the Minnesota Child Victims Act, which lifted the statute of limitation on claims of sexual abuse for three years for past abuse cases and eliminated the civil statute of limitation on abuse cases into the future.
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“Credibly accused” priests who served the Winona Diocese:
Thomas P. Adamson, Rochester, Minn.
Sylvester F. Brown, 1930-2010
Joseph C. Cashman, Dallas
Louis G. Cook, 1924-2004
William D. Curtis, 1919-2001
John R. Feiten, 1924-2001
Richard H. Hatch, 1927-2005
Ferdinand L. Kaiser, 1910-1973
Jack L. Krough, Barron, Wis.
Michael J. Kuisle, 1916-1971
James W. Lennon, 1939-2000
Leland J. Smith, Winona
Robert H. Taylor, 1930-2012
Leo C. Koppala, deported to India
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