{"id":5577,"date":"2012-06-26T12:35:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T19:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2013-02-17T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T06:23:14","slug":"former-st-joseph-youth-minister-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/former-st-joseph-youth-minister-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Former St. Joseph Youth Minister Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew &#8220;Matti&#8221; Feeney, former youth minister at St. Joseph Church in St. Joseph, Minnesota was arrested this morning. [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/minnesota-talent-agent-matthew-feeney-jailed-on-child-molestation-charges\/\">View<\/a> ]\n<p><!--more-->In 1992, Feeney was convicted of\u00a0Criminal Sexual Conduct (4th Degree), for an incident involving a member of the\u00a0St. Joseph Church community.<\/p>\n<p>According to a book on the history of the church in St. Joseph, &#8220;Rooted in Christ, the Living Stone&#8221; by Sister Owen Lindblad:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;In 1992, there was a criminal charge of child sexual molestation by a parish youth minister. The lawsuit was covered by insurance but in 1995 the case was dismissed from court due to insufficient evidence. Father Tom [Gillespie] declared, &#8216;The whole ordeal was extremely difficult for everyone concerned.'&#8221; (Page 56)<\/p>\n<p>In an email dated October 26, 2010, Matthew Feeney said that he was interviewed by the FBI (about Saint John&#8217;s Abbey Monk Father Thomas Gillespie and others) regarding the Jacob Wetterling abduction.<\/p>\n<p>Feeney wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Fr. Gillespie and I didn&#8217;t get along, never did and never will&#8230; I never even heard rumors of his criminal actions until the FBI called me years later. \u00a0Even tho nobody knew about me, from what I know now, if he suspected anything about me he probably perceived me as &#8220;competition&#8221; because he did his best to ride me out of town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew &#8220;Matti&#8221; Feeney, former youth minister at St. Joseph Church in St. Joseph, Minnesota was arrested this morning. [ View ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew-feeney","category-thomas-gillespie","wp-image-borders"],"views":2906,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}