A Roman Catholic diocese on Wednesday defended its decision to
continue employing a priest who told police he was trying to rape a
woman when he was arrested naked in an Iowa mall in 2013.
The Diocese of Sioux City issued a statement for the
first time acknowledging the 5-year-old incident involving the Rev.
Jeremy Wind, calling it a “mental health episode” from which he
recovered with the help of medication and treatment. The diocese gave no
details about what occurred and told parishioners the scrutiny was
unfortunate and unnecessary because “there is nothing newsworthy to
report.”
The statement came in response to inquiries from The
Associated Press, which used the state’s open records law to shed light
on a criminal case that was recently erased from public court files. It
marks the latest diocese personnel matter that has come under scrutiny
since its acknowledgment in October to having kept quiet a priest’s 1986 admission to sexually abusing roughly 50 boys.
Diocese says Iowa priest who threatened rape has recovered
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