MINNESOTA
Winona Daily News
HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) — A trial is set to begin this week for a former Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting an altar boy in Hastings from 1989 to 1991.
Minnesota Public Radio News (http://bit.ly/1djgvCD ) reports jury selection started Tuesday in the case of 64-year-old Francis Hoefgen. The Dakota County Attorney’s Office says the selection of jury members will continue Wednesday and will be followed by opening statements, unless a plea agreement is reached.
Hoefgen is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Prosecutors say he abused the boy from the time he was about 9 to 12 years old while serving as a priest at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish in Hastings.
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