MINNESOTA
KSTP
[with video]
[lawsuit]
By: Megan Stewart
St. John’s Abbey was urged Monday to release more information about clergy members accused of sex abuse.
Files on five monks of St. John’s were released at a news conference, which was held by Anderson and Associates, the law firm currently suing the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. They were obtained in a 2013 lawsuit filed in Ramsey County.
A former monk and an alleged victim are among those asking for more disclosure.
The alleged victim said he was abused sexually by Father Robert Blumeyer while Blumeyer was a monk at St. Johns.
Blumeyer’s file was released Monday. Documents show Blumeyer was a philosophy professor for three decades at St. Johns before he died in 1983. The victim said he brought his allegations to the Abbot in 2006 and was cut a check to keep quiet.
Other files released were of monks Cosmas Dahlheimer, Thomas Gillespie, Francis Hoefgan and Brennan Maiers.
Attorney Jeff Anderson said the files he obtained on the Abbey were heavily redacted. On June 19, he plans to ask Ramsey County Judge John Van de North to order the full release of the files. Anderson said his claim will be backed by a law passed in Minnesota last year that allows courts to force disclosure of information.
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