MINNESOTA
Fairmont Sentinel
December 17, 2013
Jodelle Greiner – Staff Writer , Fairmont Sentinel
WINONA- The Diocese of Winona released a statement Monday by Bishop John M. Quinn that included a list of priests with credible accusations of abuse.
The diocese covers southern Minnesota. The list includes 14 priests, nine of whom are deceased.
Leo Charles Koppala of Blue Earth was the only priest listed as being accused of abuse since 2004. He currently faces a criminal sexual conduct charge in Faribault County.
Ramsey County District Court had ordered public release of the names of the priests.
“In 2002, the National Review board commissioned the John Jay College of Criminal Justice to conduct a blind study to determine the nature and scope of child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in the United States,” the statement from the diocese reads. “Each diocese in the United States was contacted by John Jay College and was required to report the number of priests within its diocese who had ‘credible’ accusations of abuse.”
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