MINNESOTA
KSTP
By: Megan Stewart
Files detailing child abuse accusations against another local priest were released Tuesday an attorney.
The reports against the late Father Louis Heitzer are the latest piece of the ongoing accusations that the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis failed to protect children.
Heitzer was referred to as “perhaps the most abusive priest ever to be part of this Archdiocese,” in one file. The files were released by attorney Jeff Anderson on Tuesday.
The files detail meetings with families and church leaders and Heitzer’s continued involvement in Twin Cities churches within the archdiocese, the Diocese of Crookston and the Diocese of New Ulm.
Heitzer was ordained in 1942 and worked at several parishes in Minnesota, including Winsted, St. Paul, Marshall, Sleepy Eye, Olivia, Winthrop and Forest Lake. He died in 1969.
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