MINNESOTA
KARE
[press conference video]
Blake McCoy
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Another lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis alleging a cover-up of child sex abuse in the priesthood.
“I applaud Jane Doe 23 for coming forward,” attorney Michael Finnegan said.
Jane Doe 23 had never confronted her abuse until seeing recent media reports. That’s when she decided to Google her alleged abuser. She discovered that Father Robert Thurner had abused before and the Archdiocese covered it up.
Internal documents dating back to 1982 show the archbishop at the time, John Roach, knew of the abuse against one boy at St. John the Evangelist in Hopkins. The confidential documents reveal Thurner’s admission to the archbishop saying, “He had a brief sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy and had also purchased liquor for that boy.”
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