MINNESOTA
Austin Daily Herald
The Diocese of Winona released on Monday a list of 14 priests accused of sexually abusing minors, including two former Austin priests.
The list also includes two priests who served in Albert Lea, one who served in Brownsdale, one in Hayfield, and one in both New Richland and Wells.
The southeastern Minnesota diocese filed the list in Ramsey County District Court on Monday, a day before the deadline set by a Ramsey County judge.
Some of the priests who served in the area include:
— Louis G Cook, who was ordained in 1958, served at Austin’s Queen of Angels Catholic Church in 1970, and Austin’s St. Augustine Church in 2000, according to the diocese. He died in November 2004 at 80 years old.
— Jack L. Krough, 64, was ordained in 1976 and began serving at Austin’s St. Augustine Church and Pacelli Catholic Schools in June 1976. He also served at St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Austin and Brownsdale’s Our Lady of Loretto in 1996. His ministerial privileges were suspended in June of 2002 indefinitely; laicization, or the process of permanently removing his ministerial privileges, is pending. Krough lives in Barron, Wis.
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