MINNESOTA
Fox 9
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) –
St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson said he will unveil another lawsuit on Tuesday, Father Robert M. Thurner and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis named the defendants.
The filing of the lawsuit is on behalf of a woman who says she was sexually abused by Thurner when she was a young girl at St. Joseph’s parish in west St. Paul. The lawsuit claims the archdiocese allowed Thurner “continued access to children even after Thurner admitted in 1982, to then-Archbishop John Roach, that he sexually abused a 16 year-old boy and purchased alcohol for the boy,” a news release said.
According to the release, a news conference in St. Paul will reveal internal documents and memos detailing meetings between top Archdiocesan officials and Thurner, who was transferred to St. Joseph’s where the alleged abuse took place.
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