MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
by Madeleine Baran, Minnesota Public Radio
May 30, 2013
ST. PAUL, Minn. — St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson has filed the first lawsuit under a new Minnesota law that allows victims of child sexual abuse to bring claims decades later.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court on behalf of an unnamed 51-year-old man, accuses the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona of negligence for allowing a known pedophile to continue working with children for years.
The plaintiff, identified as “Doe 1” seeks a court order to force the church to release an internal list of “credibly accused child molesting priests” and accuses the church of creating a public nuisance by keeping the names secret. The man also seeks more than $50,000 from the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, the Diocese of Winona and former priest and alleged abuser Thomas Adamson.
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