{"id":8525,"date":"2014-05-21T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=8525"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:30:18","slug":"hoefgen-to-be-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/hoefgen-to-be-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoefgen to be Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOTICE OF PRESS CONFERENCE<br \/>\n2:00 P.M. TODAY IN HASTINGS<\/p>\n<p>FORMER CATHOLIC PRIEST TO BE CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ABUSE IN DAKOTA COUNTY<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom and Hastings Police Chief Bryan Schafer will host a press conference at 2:00 p.m. regarding these charges.  The press conference will be in the Law Enforcement Center (Sheriff\u2019s Department attached to the courthouse) at 1580 Highway 55, Hastings.  <\/p>\n<p>Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom announced that Francis Hoefgen (pronounced Huff-gen), age 63 of Columbia Heights (formerly of Hastings), was charged* today with two counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct in the First Degree in connection with allegations that he repeatedly sexually abused a former altar boy at St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton Catholic Church in Hastings from the Spring of 1989 to the Fall of 1991. During this time the victim was 9 to 12 years of age. <\/p>\n<p>If you have questions, contact James Backstrom at 651-438-4440.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTICE OF PRESS CONFERENCE 2:00 P.M. TODAY IN HASTINGS FORMER CATHOLIC PRIEST TO BE CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ABUSE IN DAKOTA COUNTY<\/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-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fran-hoefgen","wp-image-borders"],"views":311,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}