MINNESOTA/WISCONSIN
Pioneer Press
By Elizabeth Mohr
emohr@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 08/17/2015
A former St. Paul priest, serving a five-year prison term for molesting two boys in his parish — whose case led to criminal charges against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for an alleged coverup — has pleaded guilty to similar charges in Wisconsin.
Curtis Wehmeyer, 50, was charged in November in Chippewa County, Wis. He pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual assault and was sentenced Friday to three years in prison and three years of supervised release, to run consecutive to his five-year sentence in Minnesota.
According to the Wisconsin charges, Wehmeyer sexually assaulted a teenage boy who passed out after drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana, provided to him by Wehmeyer, during a 2011 camping trip at Brunet Island State Park in Estella, Wis.
Wehmeyer was sentenced in Ramsey County District Court in February 2013 for molesting two brothers from the Parish of the Blessed Sacrament on St. Paul’s East Side while he was pastor there. Those assaults took place in 2010. He also was convicted of possessing child pornography.
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