CROOKSTON -- Catholic diocese records that were
previously sealed show a priest with a history of sexually abusing young
girls served in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Crookston likely in the
1950s.
The Rev. Francis Schenk, former bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Duluth, wrote several letters
in 1960 and 1961 stating the Rev. Charles Gormly, who died in 1968, had
a history of molesting girls and had been a priest in the Crookston
diocese. The Duluth diocese admitted last December the allegations
against Gormly are credible.
