MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
Article by: CHAO XIONG , Star Tribune Updated: February 11, 2015
Two other cases remain open as part of “phase 2.”
The Ramsey County attorney’s office announced Wednesday that it has declined to file charges in two cases of alleged clergy sex abuse.
The cases involve alleged abuse from 1992 to 1994 at Saint John the Baptist Church in New Brighton, and alleged abuse from 1979 to 1984 at Saint Casimir’s Church in St. Paul.
“As we have said from the very beginning, the facts will lead the way; we can only do what the law allows; and we will do what justice requires,” Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said in a statement released Wednesday.
This brings to nine the number of cases of alleged clergy abuse that will not be pursued by Choi’s office.
In the New Brighton case, the alleged victim e-mailed the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in 2006 alleging abuse, according to a memo released by the county attorney’s office. The archdiocese reported the incident to New Brighton police that September.
The archdiocese told police they would e-mail the alleged victim, who was living abroad at the time, and ask the alleged victim to contact police. The case was closed in October 2006 when police did not hear from the alleged victim, the memo said.
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