MINNESOTA
KEYC
By Ashley Hanley, Reporter
A Blue Earth priest has been sentenced after pleading guilty to criminal sexual conduct with an 11 year old girl.
In a packed courtroom in the Faribault County Courthouse, Father Leo Charles Koppala, formerly of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Blue Earth, was sentenced to a 36–month probationary period with credit for time served after entering a guilty plea for second–degree criminal sexual conduct with an 11–year–old female.
Faribault County Attorney Troy Timmerman says, “Basically that means that given his criminal history and the severity of the offense, he will be placed on probation with a prison sentence hanging over his head so if he violates his probationary terms then the prison sentence could be imposed.”
Some of those conditions include registering as a predatory offender and not having contact with females under the age of 18, among others.
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