MINNESOTA
CBS Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A woman who says she was sexually abused as a child by a Catholic Priest told her story openly and shared her name for the first time on Monday.
Marie Mielke said Father Michael Keating sexually abused her beginning when she was 12 years old back in the late 1990s.
She says she didn’t recall or understand what had happened until years later, and when tried to tell the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul what happened, they covered it up.
After years of therapy she got an attorney and decided to sue the Archdiocese and Keating.
Keating’s attorney said he denies the claims. The Archdiocese said he is on a leave pending an internal investigation.
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