MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 03/11/2014
Prosecutors declined to file charges against Archbishop John Nienstedt in an incident in which he allegedly touched a child inappropriately on the buttocks, the Ramsey County attorney’s office said Tuesday.
“St. Paul police conducted an extensive investigation surrounding (the) allegation … Based on the investigative file presented by police, the Ramsey County attorney’s office concluded there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Archbishop Nienstedt,” the office said in a news release.
In a declination memo by Richard Dusterhoft, director of the county attorney’s criminal division, the incident was described this way:
A juvenile male was confirmed at the Cathedral of St. Paul on May 5, 2009. He later told his mother that “following the ceremony and while photographs were being taken, Archbishop John Nienstedt touched his buttocks.”
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