MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
by Tom Scheck, Minnesota Public Radio
November 19, 2013
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman filed criminal sexual misconduct charges Tuesday against the Rev. Mark Huberty, who served as pastor at Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Maplewood from 2007 until September.
According to the charges, Huberty inappropriately touched a woman under his spiritual care. They later engaged in other sexual activity over several months in the woman’s Maplewood home, at the church and in Huberty’s car.
Huberty and the woman were scheduled to go on a vacation to Kansas City in April, the complaint says. He later canceled the vacation, upsetting the victim. She later approached Huberty asking how she could stay in the church and attend mass knowing what they did together. Huberty “revealed that other women friends seemed to have no problem remaining active in the church when their relationship with him ended,” the complaint says.
The victim filed a report with the Maplewood Police Department in May after Huberty encouraged her to not tell her husband about the relationship.
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