Bishop Paprocki said he was first informed of the incident on December 6th. "On December 8th, I met with Father Donovan and Monsignor Carl Kemme, my Vicar General, in my office at the Catholic Pastoral Center. Father Donovan said that he was mortified by what happened and acknowledged that the information that had been reported to me was basically accurate. He insisted that he had been alone the whole time of this incident and denied that there was any sexual component to this," Bishop Paprocki wrote in the statement.
Bishop Paprocki granted Father Donovan a requested leave of absence and acknowledged in his statement that, with Father Donovan's consent to disclose patient information, "he is being treated by a clinical therapist and is receiving appropriate medical care."
The Bishop also noted "multiple significant unresolved stressors derived from parish ministry, and severely-compromised patterns of self-care with respect to diet, exercise, sleep, work hours, and unreasonable personal expectations of himself as a pastor."
Father Thomas Donovan was a former preacher at St. Peter's in Quincy.
Father Donovan originally told officers he put himself in handcuffs, and couldn't get them off.
Police removed the cuffs and then conducted a "miscellaneous investigation."
Investigators say no crime took place.