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Ramsey County's top prosecutor says he's deeply concerned about the way the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis handled the case of a priest who was known to be a sex addict -- and who was later convicted of child sexual abuse.


 found that Catholic Church leaders did not alert parishioners to the Rev. Curtis Wehmeyer's past, and didn't immediately report allegations of abuse to police.



Wehmeyer would later plead guilty to abusing two boys in his parish. Ramsey County Attorney John Choi told MPR News today that he found the report "troubling."



"Nothing has been presented to our office in terms of reviewing any of the issues that were raised in the MPR report this morning," he said, "but we will be in contact with the St. Paul Police Department to discuss this matter."



Choi would not specify which aspects of the report troubled him. The archdiocese issued a statement today on the Wehmeyer case, saying their "handling of past concerns could have been better addressed."

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Ramsey County's top prosecutor says he's deeply concerned about the way the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis handled the case of a priest who was known to be a sex addict -- and who was later convicted of child sexual abuse.

Ramsey Co. Attorney: Archdiocese's response to priest's misconduct 'troubling'

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