RAPID CITY (SD)
Rapid City Journal
February 6, 2021
By Arielle Zionts
https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/dci-won-t-share-results-of-priest-abuse-investigation-due-to-statute-of-limitations/article_8526b90e-68b5-5142-bbaa-eb8a7e43a3d7.html
The Division of Criminal Investigation won’t share the scope or results of its investigation into a Rapid City priest accused of child sexual abuse because any crime that might have happened can no longer be charged in court.
“While the investigation is not closed it is at a point where due to the statute of limitations there is nothing chargeable,” said Tim Bormann, spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office. “Should any new information or allegations be forthcoming that evidence would then be examined.”
Bormann declined to share the nature of the allegations and the results and scope of the investigation into Father Michel Mulloy, a priest who was set to become Bishop of Duluth.
“The statute of limitations places this matter into a category where it cannot be brought into a court of law, similarly it would not be proper to release any details that would conversely be considered in the court of public opinion,” he said.
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