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ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
Copyright © 1991, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
Friday, December 06, 1991
Edition: Metro Final Section: Metro Page: 3B Source: Clark Morphew, Staff Writer
Correction: In a Dec. 5 story about two lawsuits involving sexual abuse by Catholic priests, one name of a defendant was incorrect. The correct name is the Rev. Robert Michael Thurner.
ARCHDIOCESE TARGETED IN LAWSUITS ALLEGING SEXUAL ABUSE BY 2 PRIESTS
Two lawsuits involving alleged sexual abuse by priests were filed against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis on Thursday.
The first suit alleges that the Rev. Michael Thurner abused a boy from 1980 through 1984 while he was a priest at the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Hopkins and at the Church of St. Joseph in West St. Paul. Thurner resigned from the Church of St. Therese in Highland Park on Sunday.
The second suit involves a deceased priest, the Rev. Francis Reynolds, who is alleged to have sexually abused a teen-age girl from about 1972 through 1984 while she was a parishioner and student at the St. Francis Xavier parish and school in Buffalo, Minn. Reynolds died in 1987.
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