MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 05/21/2014
A former Hastings priest has been charged with sexually abusing a young altar boy over a period of more than two years.
Francis Frederick Hoefgen, 63, of Columbia Heights subjected the boy to oral and anal sex as well as fondling of his genitals, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Dakota County District Court. The child was between the ages of about 9 or 10 and 12.
The victim, now an adult, went to Hastings Police with the allegations in November.
According to the complaint:
The man said he attended St. Boniface Church and school as a child. While serving as an altar boy, he was sexually abused by Hoefgen “on several occasions over an extended period of time,” the complaint said.
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