Crookston Bishop Michael Hoeppner,
who spent 42 years as a priest in the Diocese of Winona, has been
accused of covering up a decades-old case of child sexual abuse, and of
blackmailing the accuser into keeping the claims to himself.
Hoeppner was named in a civil complaint filed Monday in Polk County district court. Ronald
Vasek, a longtime parishioner in the Crookston diocese and the father
of one of the priests there, said he was abused by a diocesan priest in
1971, when he was 16, and that Hoeppner learned of this around 2010.
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