MINNESOTA
CBS Minnesota
[with video]
Esme Murphy
ST. PAUL (WCCO) – Archbishop John Nienstedt spent most of the day answering questions under oath about clergy sex abuse.
After the deposition, Nienstedt waved to photographers while being driven away from his attorney’s downtown St. Paul office.
Attorney for many of the victims, Jeff Anderson, requested the deposition in the case of a lawsuit filed by a victim, who the courts call John Doe 1. The man says he was sexually abused by Father Thomas Adamson in 1976 and 1977.
Anderson did not hold back after the deposition, accusing Nienstedt of holding back information and not answering key questions.
“It started the day with them failing to turn over the files that they were supposed to by court order, so we didn’t have all the files and the files that we did have were improperly deleted,” Anderson said.
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