MINNESOTA
WDAZ
By Matt Henson on Mar 9, 2016
Crookston, MN (WDAZ-TV)
Should the Catholic Diocese of Crookston be forced to pay up?
A judge is deciding whether or not the diocese is financially responsible for a pedophile priest in one of its parishes.
The Diocese of Crookston does not deny it.
“The Diocese of Crookston deeply regrets that anyone was harmed at the hands of any clergy member,” commented said Susan Gaertner the lawyer for the diocese
That includes Father Vincent Fitzgerald who died in 2009. Doe 19 claims he was sexually abused by the priest as a ten year old while he was an altar boy at St. Anne’s in Naytahwaush back in the mid-1980s.
“The Diocese of Crookston knew for decades that there were priests abusing kids in this diocese, but continued to keep that from the public and keep those secrets,” said Doe 19’s lawyer Mike Finnegan.
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