MINNESOTA
The Legal Examiner
[with video]
Posted by Mike Bryant
May 12, 2014
Recently, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis released the name of Gerald Funcheon, adding him to the list of credibly accused priests who have been in that Archdiocese. So far no other list in Minnesota has included him. Looking at his record, he was in St Cloud at Cathedral High School and St. John XXIII Middle Schools a chaplain.
Watch this video about his offenses:
Kare 11 recently asked the questions of when did he start abusing children and how many?
In his own words:
“I suspect, and I don’t remember, it would have been at it St. Odilia’s,” he testified in a 2012 deposition
His assignment to St. Odilia‘s was in 1970 to 1974!
As to how many:
In one of those cases, Twin Cities attorney Jeff Anderson was able ask Father Jerry – under oath in 2012 – how many kids he’d sexually abused.
“I would say a dozen,” Funcheon testified at first. But attorney Anderson challenged him, suggesting there are more victims.
Anderson – “Do you think you might be underestimating that number?
Funcheon –”Wow – I couldn’t count ‘em up. I’ll go – I don’t know. I’ll go to 18. I can’t give you a number on this, okay?”
KARE 11 discovered the real number could be much higher.
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