UNITED STATES
BishopAccountability.org – Assignment Record
Summary of Case: A priest of the Superior, Wisconsin diocese, Ericksen was the subject of a 1989 lawsuit in which he was accused of sexually abusing four boys. He is said to have raped a 17 year-old boy and that boy’s 8 to 9 year old cousin. Further, he is said to have been caught assaulting two boys in the rectory, one of whom was the younger cousin of the 17 year-old. Ericksen said in 2010 that he “just fondled and stuff like that”, in regard to the three boys, but he denied involvement with a fourth boy. Ericksen was removed from the priesthood in 1988. He had moved to Minneapolis in 1983, then to Kansas City, MO in 2005, where he was still residing in July 2010. In July 2010 the Sawyer County, WI Police Department began a criminal investigation of the 1980s allegations.
Ordained: 1973
Incardinated: Superior
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