MINNESOTA
Post-Bulletin
Kay Fate, kfate@postbulletin.com
SAVAGE — Jim Keenan was 13 years old and small for his age, standing just 4 feet 8 inches tall in eighth grade, when he was chosen for a special honor at Church of the Risen Savior in Burnsville: serving as altar boy for the first-ever Mass at the church.
He didn’t realize it at the time, but he also had been chosen by the priest, and became the latest in a long line of men who say the priest, Thomas Adamson, sexually abused them.
Keenan has claimed the priest abused him for about a year in the early 1980s. Adamson, now 80 and a resident of Rochester, has been named in many suits but never faced charges because of the statute of limitations. He was defrocked in 1984.
So Keenan, now 46, set his sights on the Winona Diocese, which he simply claimed moved Adamson around when allegations of abuse surfaced at parishes where he served.
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