MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 12/20/2013
After the St. Paul police said in October that they wanted to hear from victims of clergy sexual abuse, a former White Bear Lake woman picked up the phone.
She called an investigator in that north suburban city, saying she had been abused by the Rev. Ambrose Filbin at St. Pius X in the 1960s, while she was in grade school there.
“He caught me in a (school supply) room and just started kissing me, French kissing,” said the woman, who will be referred to as “Donna” for this report. It is not her real name. “And as I struggled to get away, he said, ‘Coward.’ ”
She was 14.
Donna said Filbin followed up the kissing with fondling. She said the abuse lasted six years.
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