MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 12/10/2013
A Ramsey County judge has ruled that an alleged sexual abuse victim’s nuisance claims against the Catholic Church may proceed.
A man identified as John Doe 1 filed suit in May alleging he was abused by Thomas Adamson, and that the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona failed to respond adequately.
Adamson had admitted to molesting boys in the Winona diocese, yet was transferred to the Twin Cities archdiocese and allowed to work at St. Thomas Aquinas parish in St. Paul Park, among other locations, with no warning to families, according to the suit.
It was at St. Thomas Aquinas that Adamson abused Doe 1, the lawsuit alleges.
The victim alleges that the diocese and archdiocese created a public nuisance by concealing Adamson’s history and that of other priest offenders from the community. He also alleges their actions constituted a private nuisance by leading to his sexual abuse.
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