The Rochester Police Department is organizing a public informational meeting next week assist the parents of Sunset Terrace Elementary School students and other community members with concerns about an ongoing sexual abuse investigation.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Diocese of New Ulm has filed for bankruptcy protection, becoming the 14th diocese nationwide to file for reorganization after claims of sexual abuse by clergy.
PINE CITY, Minn. (AP) — The leader of an isolated religious sect in Minnesota has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, weeks after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two teenage girls.
Rochester, MN (KROC AM News) - A Rochester man convicted of sexually abusing two young girls will be 75-years-old before he is eligible for parole from a state prison.
Pine City, MN (Learfield) -- A retired Catholic priest now living in Minnesota admits he sexually abused boys years ago when he served in Guam. The Reverend Louis Brouillard is 95 years old.
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has arrived at Rochester's federal prison to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that he sexually abused at least four boys when he coached wrestling at an Illinois high school.
PINE CITY, Minn. (AP) — A judge has set bail at $1.5 million for a religious sect leader who's charged with sexually abusing girls at a secluded compound in rural Minnesota.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Creditors and an attorney for victims of clergy abuse are accusing a Minnesota archdiocese of vastly understating its assets in bankruptcy.
CHICAGO (AP) -- When he sentenced Dennis Hastert to more than a year in prison, the judge in the former House speaker's hush-money case delivered the verbal equivalent of a public flogging.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Catholic priest deported to India after completing his sentence in Minnesota for sexually abusing a child is a part of a new lawsuit against a diocese in India that allegedly returned him to ministry with Vatican approval.