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April 2, 2014 By Melanie Sommer
Archbishop John Nienstedt testified under oath Wednesday about his handling of clergy sexual abuse allegations in the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese, in a deposition conducted by an attorney for a sex abuse victim.
The lawsuit was filed by a man who claims he was sexually abused by a priest, the Rev. Thomas Adamson, in the 1970s when he was assigned to St. Thomas Aquinas Church in St. Paul Park.
Neinstedt and the archdiocese made several attempts to postpone or cancel the deposition, but they were rebuffed by Ramsey County Judge John Van de North.
The plaintiff’s attorney, Jeff Anderson, spoke to reporters after the deposition and claimed Nienstedt was not as forthcoming as he should have been, FOX 9 reports.
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