MINNESOTA
Winona Daily News
[the list]
The Diocese of Winona released a list today of 13 priests who have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse.
The diocese was ordered to release the list earlier this month by a Ramsey County judge, who also ordered the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to release a similar list of 33 names. The diocese released those names last week. Today is the judge’s deadline for the Winona diocese to release its list of names.
Shortly after the judge’s decision, Winona Bishop John Quinn said the diocese will “fully cooperate with the order.”
Barbara Dorris, the outreach director for SNAP — Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests — released a statement Monday calling on Quinn to also turn over all documentation on the people on the list, order them to be put in a treatment center, and pay personal visits to each parish where they worked.
“Let no one breathe a sigh of relief today,” she said. “Let no one misunderstand what’s happening in Winona. This is not reform. It’s simply a bishop obeying a court order so he won’t get in trouble.”
Attorneys with the law firm of Jeff Anderson, who has aggressively pushed the courts to release the lists of names, have planned an afternoon news conference in Rochester. Those on the list have worked at 45 parishes in 44 cities across southern Minnesota, according to the firm.
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