MINNESOTA
Crookston Times
[Doe 19 Summons and Complaint
Fitzgerald Timeline
Doe 19 Statement
2010 S.D. Complaint
J. Vincent Fitzgerald Photo]
There will be a press conference Thursday in Crookston in regards to another civil suit to be filed under the Child Victims Act, this time involving sexual abuse on a reservation.
The announcement involves the White Earth Indian Reservation in Naytahwaush on behalf of a man who attended St. Ann’s Parish. This lawsuit, again, names the Diocese of Crookston, alleging negligence in placing the accused Father J. Vincent Fitzgerald in parishes and communities where he had access to children even after learning that he was a child molester.
This is the first time that Fitzgerald’s name has been publicly released in Minnesota.
He allegedly abused children on three reservations, including orphaned children on the Lake Traverse Reservation, as part of the Sisseton, South Dakota Indian Mission. Fitzgerald is deceased and held positions in the Diocese of Duluth, Diocese of Crookston, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and others in Illinois, Oregon, Missouri, and South Dakota.
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