MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Richard Chin
rchin@pioneerpress.com
Posted: 05/29/2013
A 51-year-old Twin Cities man alleges that he was sexually abused nearly 40 years ago by a priest who had a pattern of molesting children, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court.
The lawsuit, which also named the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona as defendants, accuses former priest Thomas Adamson of sexual battery and accuses the archdiocese and diocese of being a public nuisance for refusing to release the names of 46 “credibly accused child-molesting priests.”
“Our kids remain at great peril because we do not know who these offenders are and they do,” said Jeff Anderson, attorney for the plaintiff in the lawsuit identified only as “Doe 1.”
The lawsuit seeks a court order to require the archdiocese and diocese to release names of the accused priests “so kids in our community and across Minnesota can be better protected,” Anderson said at a news conference Wednesday.
According to Anderson, the lawsuit was the first filed in Minnesota under a law approved this year by the Legislature and signed last week by Gov. Mark Dayton that lifts a six-year civil statute of limitations for victims of childhood sexual abuse.
The lawsuit alleges that Adamson, while working at St. Thomas Aquinas parish in St. Paul Park, “engaged in unpermitted sexual contact” in 1976 and 1977 with Doe 1, who was a teenage altar boy.
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