MINNESOTA
Fox 9
Updated: Oct 08, 2013
by Maury Glover
by Mike Durkin
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) –
St. Paul police have reopened their investigation into the possession of child pornography at the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Last Thursday, Vicar General Peter Laird resigned after a police report surfaced in court that revealed the Archdiocese may have known for almost a decade that one of its priests, Rev. Jonathan Shelley, may have had child pornography on an old computer. The Archdiocese allegedly kept Shelley on the job as a parish priest without warning parishioners or police.
Joe Ternus was the one who originally discovered the pornography on Shelley’s computer. His father had gotten the computer from St. Jude of the Lake in Mahtomedi, Minn., where Shelley was working at the time.
When Ternus checked over the computer it before giving it to his children, he saw at least a half-dozen images of adult pornography and turned it over to the Archdiocese back in 2004.
Read more: Police reopen child porn case involving MN priest, Archdiocese – KMSP-TV http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/23639025/police-reopen-child-porn-case-involving-minn-priest-archdiocese#ixzz2hAa6nUkX
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