MINNESOTA
St. Cloud Times
David Unze, dunze@stcloudtimes.com April 3, 2017
A Sartell man who volunteered at a local church pleaded guilty Monday to sexually abusing a teenager who was an altar boy at a St. Cloud church.
Douglas Gerard Kleinsmith, 55, pleaded guilty to two counts of felony criminal sexual conduct on the day when his trial was supposed to begin. Prosecutors will ask a Stearns County judge to sentence Kleinsmith to seven years in prison when he’s sentenced June 15.
Kleinsmith volunteered to train altar boys and trained the teenage boy he would abuse, according to a criminal complaint charging him. The complaint says the boy met Kleinsmith at church when he was 15 years old, and that year also began working for Kleinsmith outside church hours.
Kleinsmith was part of a Latin Mass group that met at St. John Cantius Church, according to the Diocese of St. Cloud.
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