MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
Richard Jeub called what happened at Our Lady of Grace church in Edina “stupid stuff done when I was young.”
Jeub was among 34 priests the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis deemed “credibly accused” of sexually abusing children, according to a list released by the church Thursday.
Ten of the priests have since died. Another is believed dead. One, Curtis Wehmeyer, is in prison for sexually abusing two boys.
All the priests are out of the ministry, the archdiocese said.
The Pioneer Press tried to contact each living priest on the list. Of those for whom phone numbers were found, three were reached.
Jeub, 73, was one. Another was Dennis Kampa of Virginia, Minn., who said he never understood the charge against him. The third priest, 93-year-old John Thomas Brown, was hard of hearing and unable to understand a reporter.
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