MINNESOTA
Duluth News Tribune
By: News Tribune staff, Duluth News Tribune
A victims group has called on the St. Louis County Attorney’s Office to review possible charges against a former Chisholm priest accused of child sexual abuse, and the bishop of the Diocese of Duluth.
Verne Wagner, the northern Minnesota director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, sent an e-mail to St. Louis County Attorney Mark Rubin on Monday requesting an investigation.
“I would ask your office to investigate with what tools you have available this reported crime,” Wagner wrote to Rubin.
The Diocese of Duluth announced on Oct. 6 that the Rev. Cornelius Kelleher had been removed from the ministry after being “credibly accused in the sexual abuse of a minor female during his time as a pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Chisholm from 1975 to 1986.”
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