Prosecutors on Friday directed the charges and Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said they are investigating "a disturbing institutional and systemic pattern of behavior over the course of decades at the highest level of leadership in the archdiocese."
Curtis Wehmeyer
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Choi said the archdiocese failed to properly respond to "numerous and repeated reports" of troubling conduct by priest Curtis Wehmeyer that spanned from his entry into seminary in 1997 until his formal dismissal as a priest in March 2015.
An investigation was launched into Wehmeyer in March involving more than 2014 50 witnesses and 170,000 pages of documents.
Wehmeyer, 50, was sentenced in 2013 to five years for criminal sexual conduct and possession of child pornography. He is serving his time in Minnesota and he has been charged with sex crimes in Wisconsin.
