MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Joseph Lindberg
jlindberg@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 01/29/2014
The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office and St. Paul Police Department will hold a joint press conference Wednesday morning to announce a prosecution decision in the Rev. Curtis Wehmeyer case.
The press conference will be held at the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office Library in downtown St. Paul at 10 a.m., according to a release from the office of Ramsey County Attorney John J. Choi.
Formerly assigned to Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in St. Paul, Wehmeyer is serving a five-year prison term for possessing child pornography and sexually abusing two children.
A September 2013 report by Minnesota Public Radio said top archdiocese officials knew of Wehmeyer’s sexual compulsions for nearly a decade, but still kept him in the ministry.
Choi said in a statement last year that he was “troubled” by details in the report on how the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis handled allegations against Wehmeyer — but said his office could not open a grand jury investigation as requested by a victims’ support group.
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