Assignment Record– Rev. Michael Charland, O.M.I.

UNITED STATES
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Summary of Case: Michael Charland was a priest of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, ordained in 1971. He was assigned to parish work, was an assistant principal and counselor at a preparatory seminary, and he was involved in campus ministry and Teens Encounter Christ. He worked in the the dioceses of Belleville IL, La Crosse WI, New Ulm MN and the archdioceses of San Antonio TX, Milwaukee WI, St. Paul and Minneaopolis MN and Ontario, Canada. He was laicized in 1989. In 2002 a man reported to the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese that Charland sexually assaulted him in 1981 during a retreat, when the man was a 17-year-old boy. Charland’s accuser said the priest kissed him then ground his pelvis against him. In October 2014 Ramsey County Attorney John Choi announced that Charland’s case could not be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations. As part of an April 2015 settlement with the Oblates, a law firm announced publicly in July 2015 that Charland was one of seven credibly accused O.M.I. priests. Charland was working as a therapist in a Woodbury MN counseling center at the time of the announcement. By September 2015 his name was no longer on the center’s website.

Born: June 22, 1945
Ordained: August 21, 1971
Laicized: November 5, 1989

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