ST. LOUIS (MO)
CBS St. Louis
Fred Bodimer
June 12, 2014
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – A spirited defense from the attorney representing St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson in his deposition on how he handled a clergy abuse case in Minnesota in the early 1980s.
Carlson has drawn criticism for saying that he wasn’t aware at that time that it was a crime for an adult to engage in sex with a child.
“I’m not sure whether I knew it was a crime or not,” Carlson said in the deposition. “I understand today it’s a crime.”
Comments like this, says the Archbishop’s attorney Charles Goldberg, have been taken totally out of context.
“I think it’s apparent if you read the deposition exactly what the context of the questions and answers were,” he says.
So what was the context?
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