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Sex Abuse Case Filed by Deephaven Attorney Against Archdiocese Involves Former Long Lake Priest

Posted by Jay Corn (Editor), June 18, 2013

A Deephaven attorney has filed a civil suit against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis on behalf of a Minnesota man who claims a priest who spent seven years at St. George’s Catholic Church in Long Lake molested him in the early 1970s.

In court documents filed earlier this month, Patrick Noaker states the Archdiocese was aware that Father Thomas Stitts was sexually inappropriate with boys throughout his career and was repeatedly

In all, more than a dozen cases—including two stemming from alleged conduct at St. George’s—have been filed against Father Stitts. Noaker has represented almost all of Stitts’ alleged victims.

“The abuse in this latest case occurred while Father Stitts was serving as a priest at St. Leo’s in St. Paul,” Noaker said….