MINNESOTA
Duluth News Tribune

By: Tom Olsen, Duluth News Tribune

A suit filed today in St. Louis County seeks the public release of the names and files of 17 Diocese of Duluth priests who are accused of sexually abusing children.

The action comes four days after the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis released the names of 32 Twin Cities priests with credible abuse accusations.

The suit was brought by an anonymous man, identified as Doe 28, who says he was abused by a Duluth priest in the 1970s. The man is represented by St. Paul-based law firm Jeff Anderson and Associates, which has represented thousands of victims of sexual abuse by authority figures and clergy.

According to the suit, the man was repeatedly the victim of “unpermitted sexual contact” by Fr. Robert Klein, a priest who, at the time, was assigned to St. Jean’s Elementary School and…