{"id":8483,"date":"2014-05-20T00:35:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=8483"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:45:19","slug":"1984-statement-hoefgen-admitted-contact-with-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/1984-statement-hoefgen-admitted-contact-with-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"1984 Statement: Hoefgen Admitted Contact With Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/19840319_Hoefgen_Confession_Redacted.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/hoefgen_1984_statement-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"hoefgen_1984_statement\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>According to a 2002\u00a0St. Paul Pioneer Press article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Although the Rev. Francis Hoefgen admitted to police in 1984 that he had sexual encounters with a teenager in the St. Cloud area, the Stearns County Attorney&#8217;s Office did not prosecute the Catholic priest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->View the Pioneer Press article \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/priest-never-prosecuted\/\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View\u00a0Father Hoefgen&#8217;s statement\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/19840319_Hoefgen_Confession_Redacted.pdf\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a 2002\u00a0St. Paul Pioneer Press article: &#8220;Although the Rev. Francis Hoefgen admitted to police in 1984 that he had sexual encounters with a teenager in the St. Cloud area, the Stearns County Attorney&#8217;s Office did not prosecute the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/1984-statement-hoefgen-admitted-contact-with-minor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fran-hoefgen","wp-image-borders"],"views":651,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483","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=8483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8529,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}