MINNESOTA
KAAL
(ABC 6 NEWS) — Files of five St. John’s monks accused of sexually abusing children who worked in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis will be publicly released at news conference on Monday, May 19. This is according to Jeff Anderson and Associates. A law firm based in St. Paul that represents sexual abuse survivors.
Files to be released include Robert Blumeyer, Cosmas Dahlheimer, Thomas Gillespie, Francis Hoefgen and Brennan Maiers. The files were obtained in a lawsuit filed in Ramsey County in 2013 involving the Archdiocese, Diocese of Winona and Father Thomas Adamson.
An announcement will also be made at the press conference concerning the filing of a sexual abuse lawsuit filed in Stearns County on behalf of two Minnesota men, Doe 33 and Doe 34, naming the Order of St. Benedict a/k/a and d/b/a St. John’s Abbey, and Richard Eckroth.
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