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Gallery: New Ulm Diocese releases names of accused priests

By Jean Hopfensperger Star Tribune MARCH 29, 2016

The names of 16 priests credibly accused of sexually abusing children in the New Ulm Diocese were released Tuesday morning, marking the final Minnesota diocese to make public a list of its clergy offenders.

Attorney Jeff Anderson made public the names at a news conference in St. Paul, following more than two years of demands for their publication. Already, victims advocates say the list is incomplete.

Anderson introduced two women abused by the same priest in the New Ulm Diocese and exhorted other child sex abuse victims to come forward before the deadline set in the Minnesota Child Victims Act for people to file old claims.

“They can do something in the next 58 days … to bring a claim against the diocese or the institution,” Anderson…