MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
Article by: JEAN HOPFENSPERGER , Star Tribune Updated: May 19, 2014
Lawyers release documents on five monks known to have sexually abused children.
The clergy sex abuse lawsuit against the Twin Cities archdiocese headed northwest Monday, when archdiocese documents related to child abuse by five monks at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville were publicly released and a lawsuit was filed to pry open the abbey’s files.
The letters and internal memos released were among the thousands of pages of documents the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis provided to attorneys as part of a lawsuit.
They covered five monks previously identified as abusers — including the Rev. Richard Eckroth who brought hundreds of students to an abbey cabin for overnight trips.
Attorney Jeff Anderson filed a lawsuit representing two victims of Eckroth in Stearns County Monday, seeking the full release of the abbey’s filers on abusers.
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