MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.comtwincities.com
Posted: 04/18/2013 12:01:00 AM CDT
April 18, 2013
The author of a new book about the priest sexual-abuse scandal is scheduled to appear in the Twin Cities on Friday and Saturday, April 19 and 20, along with St.Paul attorney Jeff Anderson.
Anderson is one of two men whose paths converge in Michael D’Antonio’s “Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime and the Era of Catholic Scandal.”
Anderson, 65, is the church outsider in the book — a Stillwater resident who has made his living suing the Catholic Church on behalf of people who allege assaults by clergy.
In his early days as a lawyer, D’Antonio writes, Anderson was infamous for parties “that would put a rock band to shame.” Anderson’s drug- and alcohol-fueled antics included, on one occasion, jumping onto a windowsill, howling with laughter and then “pissing on the sidewalk below.”
But Anderson emerges as a fierce crusader for the victims he represents. A lawsuit he filed in 1984 on behalf of the parents of a young boy “touched off a legal war of historic and global proportions,” according to the book.
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