MINNESOTA
Faribault County Register
January 4, 2014
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A judge on Friday gave the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis more time to release a second list of priests who have been accused of child sexual abuse.
Ramsey County Judge John Van de North extended the deadline until Feb. 5.
Archdiocese officials went to court Friday morning to argue that the names of some priests accused of child sexual abuse should not be included on the list that it had been ordered to file by this coming Monday.
The second list updates a list the church prepared a decade ago of priests who it deemed had been “credibly accused.”
Attorneys for the archdiocese argued that the court order requiring the release of the names is ambiguous and could harm the reputation of innocent priests. This time, the list would include the names of all priests accused of abuse after 2004, regardless of whether the church had deemed the accusations against an individual priest to be credible, the Star Tribune reported (http://strib.mn/1crOcsN ).
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