BISMARCK (ND)
Grand Forks Herald
January 4, 2021
By April Baumgarten
Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Fargo and Bismarck dioceses releasing their lists of 53 priests and other Catholic officials who faced substantiated allegations of child sex abuse.
North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says that after a lengthy investigation, criminal charges won’t be filed against any priests or other Catholic officials accused of sexually abusing children in the state.
The Bureau of Criminal Investigation found that two living priests could have faced criminal charges for allegedly abusing children. However, the statute of limitations has run out, Stenehjem said Monday, Jan. 4.
“I regret it will not be possible to have these men face their victims at a trial and face the potential consequences, but I hope it brings a measure of comfort to the victims that these crimes were eventually investigated,” Stenehjem said in a statement.
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