MINNESOTA
Mankato Free Press
NEW PRAGUE — A New Prague parish is being sued by a victim who alleges he was sexually abused by a priest in the 1960s.
Minneapolis attorney Patrick Noaker filed a civil complaint on behalf of the victim on Monday in Le Sueur County District Court. It alleges the victim was sexually abused when he was 12 by the Rev. Louis Heitzer in 1965 at St. Scholastica Parish in Heidelberg.
When the victim was 12, he lost his father in a car wreck and Heitzer accompanied police to his home with the news, Noaker said.
“Heitzer used that connection with the family to isolate this kid and ultimately sexually abuse him,” Noaker said. “It shows at what level the trust in their parish priest was violated.”
Heitzer, who is now deceased, was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1942 and was employed by the parish from 1958 to 1965.
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