MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Richard Chin and Emily Gurnon
Pioneer Press
POSTED: 10/08/2013
St. Paul police Tuesday reopened their child pornography investigation involving a Hugo priest and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
St. Paul police had been investigating allegations that the Rev. Jonathan Shelley possessed child pornography on a computer owned by the priest. But it closed the investigation Sept. 29 for lack of evidence because computer discs turned over to police by the archdiocese contained only adult pornography, not child pornography.
Less than a week later, the case took a twist.
Nine years ago, a Hugo parishioner who owned the house where Shelley lived had obtained the computer owned by Shelley, saw sexual images on it and reported it to the archdiocese. That man, Joe Ternus, remembered last week that he had copied files from the machine’s hard drive before he turned it over to the archdiocese in 2004.
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