MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
Article by: PAUL WALSH , Star Tribune Updated: May 21, 2014
Francis Hoefgen was charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for allegedly abusing the boy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The alleged abuse began when the boy was 9 or 10 years old.
A onetime priest at a Catholic parish in Hastings was charged Wednesday with repeatedly sexually abusing an altar boy in the late 1980s and into early 1990s, acts that allegedly occurred after he was removed from a central Minnesota parish after similar behavior.
Francis Hoefgen, 63, of Columbia Heights, was charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for allegedly abusing the boy from early 1989 to late 1991. Hoefgen remains held in the Dakota County jail.
The abuse began when the victim was 9 or 10 years old years old and an altar boy at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church (formerly St. Boniface), where Hoefgen was assigned, according to the charges.
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