MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press

By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 10/10/2013

A woman parishioner told Maplewood police that she was “led into” a sexual relationship with her pastor while seeking religious and spiritual guidance from him, according to a search warrant affi-davit.

The Rev. Mark Huberty, a priest at the Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, met the woman in 2008, and she later went to him for counseling, she told police, according to an affidavit for a search warrant filed Thursday in Ramsey County District Court in Maplewood.

Huberty, 43, has not been charged with a crime.

It is a felony for members of the clergy to have a sexual relationship with a person they are counseling or to whom they are providing spiritual advice.

The search warrant sought files and documents related to Huberty at the 226 Summit Ave. offices of the Archdiocese of…