MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
Article by: JOY POWELL , Star Tribune Updated: October 9, 2013
A member of the newly appointed task force says members will not allow their findings to be whitewashed.
A retired police officer with expertise in Internet sex crimes against kids, a law professor and a sex-abuse psychologist are among six lay people who had their first meeting Wednesday as members of a new task force looking into clergy sexual misconduct and how the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has responded.
The task force was named following allegations last week that archdiocesan leaders mishandled situations involving a priest who confessed to sexually assaulting two boys and is in prison as well as another priest who may have had child pornography on his computer.
One of six members on the Ministerial Standards Task Force is Brian Short, a Minneapolis business executive and federal courts mediator who vowed that the task force would not “whitewash” its findings, which will be presented to Archbishop John Nienstedt and made public.
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