MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 04/22/2014
The top official in the Twin Cities archdiocese said in a sworn deposition that he learned early on about priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children but believed only “certain people in parishes” needed to know.
Archbishop John Nienstedt said he has since changed his mind about that.
Plaintiff’s attorney Jeff Anderson and his co-counsel Michael Finnegan made public Tuesday morning the 200-page written transcript and selected video clips from Nienstedt’s April 2 deposition, taken as part of a lawsuit by an alleged abuse victim.
As Anderson held his press conference, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis also released the written transcript via email to the media and posted it on its website.
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