Priest Charged with Sexual Abuse

MINNESOTA
KVRR

A former Catholic priest has been charged in Dakota County with sexually abusing an altar boy from 1989 to 1991.

Sixty-three-year-old Francis Hoefgen has been charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Hoefgen is accused of abusing the boy at a catholic church in Hastings when the child was 9 to 12 years old.

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