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DULUTH, MN (WTAQ) – A former Wisconsin priest accused of child sexual abuse had his name released for the first time Tuesday.
The Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a Catholic missionary order, announced the names of Michael Charland and 6 other former priests in a lawsuit settlement with an abuse victim.
Charland once led a program in Superior called “Teens Encounter Christ.” He and 4 of the other priests worked in the Diocese of Duluth Minnesota at one time.
An attorney for the diocese tells the Duluth News-Tribune it has no record of alleged sexual abuse to minors by any of the 5 priests except for James Fitzgerald, the subject of the victim’s lawsuit.
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