MINNESOTA
The Sun Daily (Malaysia)
Posted on 6 June 2015
CHICAGO: US prosecutors laid criminal charges against the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis on Friday for its failure to protect children from sexual abuse at the hands of a disgraced priest.
The archdiocese in the northern state of Minnesota is one of a number of Catholic institutions which has declared bankruptcy in the wake of massive payouts to the victims of clergy sex abuse.
“We are alleging a disturbing institutional and systemic pattern of behavior committed by the highest levels of leadership of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis over the course of decades,” Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said in a statement.
Choi said the church failed to respond to “numerous and repeated reports” of troubling conduct by Curtis Wehmeyer leading all the way back to when he first entered the seminary in 1997. He was defrocked in March 2015.
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