MINNESOTA
Advocate Tribune
By Scott Tedrick
News Editor
Posted Mar. 11, 2016
New information has come to light indicating that at least two additional cases of sexual abuses have been perpetrated in Granite Falls by pastors assigned to St. Andrew Catholic Church by the New Ulm Diocese, including one ‘credibly confirmed’ case involving Fr. Gordon Buckley.
Furthermore, the information indicates the New Ulm Diocese was aware of three area cases of abuse prior to at least one of the pastor’s assignments at St. Andrew.
Last month Parishioners of St. Andrew Church received a pair of letters by New Ulm Diocese Bishop John Levoir, dated February 5 and February 11, informing them of two priests with a history of sexual abuse who were placed in the parish during back-to-back assignments in the 60s and 70.
In 2010, the first of the now three cases of reported sexual abuse, was brought to the surface following a CNN Special Report on a report of sexual abuse of a local child perpetrated by Fr. Francis Markey during an approximately three month period in which he was assigned as interim pastor for the church in the spring of 1982.
Markey would die in jail in 2012 while awaiting charges of raping a 15-year old in Ireland over 40 years ago.
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