MINNESOTA
KARE
[with video]
DOCUMENT: 1992 memo on Father Funcheon
Julie Nelson, Anchor and Steve Eckert, Investigative Producer KARE 11
ST. PAUL, Minn. – He liked to be called “Father Jerry”.
By his own account, Gerald Funcheon of the Catholic Order of the Holy Cross – the Croisers – started abusing young boys in the 1970’s here in the Twin Cities.
“I suspect, and I don’t remember, it would have been at it St. Odilia’s,” he testified in a 2012 deposition.
“The guy was a wolf,” according to David Bidney, one of kids who says he was abused starting when he was just 10. “They hurt me bad. And they hurt a lot of kids bad.”
In addition to St. Odilia’s in Shoreview, Father Jerry served in parishes and schools in Anoka, Onamia, and St. Cloud plus other assignments literally from coast-to-coast.
Just last week, Father Funcheon’s name was added to the local Archdiocese’s official list of abusive priests.
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