MINNESOTA
Daily Mail (UK)
By HELEN POW
A Minneapolis priest is being sued for allegedly fondling the breasts of a teenage girl and forcing her to lay on top of him while he was aroused during three years of abuse that occured a decade and a half ago.
The victim, who was 13 when the alleged abuse started and is in her late 20s now, filed a lawsuit against Reverend Michael Jerome Keating Monday claiming ‘dealing with what he did to me is an hourly battle.’
She alleges he fondled her breasts, made her lie on top of him while he was aroused, woke her in the middle of the night to ask for a back rub and french kissed her.
Keating, then-44 and 30 years the girl’s senior, was attending St Paul Seminary at the time, studying to be a priest. He is now an associate professor in Catholic studies at the University of St. Thomas.
According to her suit, Keating ‘engaged in multiple instances of unpermitted, harmful and offensive sexual contact with the girl from 1997 to 2000.
She said Keating repeatedly told her he loved her and she believed she loved him.
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