GREEN BAY (WI)
Green Bay Press Gazette
September 21, 2018
By Shelby Le Duc
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2018/09/21/priest-sex-abuse-retired-bishop-green-bay-withdraws-ministry-failed-report-robert-morneau-ricken/1379459002/
A retired bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay has withdrawn from public ministry, acknowledging his failure to report a priest’s sexual abuse of a minor 40 years ago that allowed the priest to assault other youths.
Bishop Robert Morneau asked to withdraw from public ministry in a Sept. 14 letter to the diocese. Bishop David Ricken approved that request three days later.
In the letter, Morneau admits to failing to report to the police a 1979 incident of a priest sexually abusing a child.
“As a result, this priest was able to abuse again several years later,” he wrote.
The priest, David Boyea, pleaded guilty in 1985 to first-degree sexual assault of another child and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He also was permanently removed from the priesthood.
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