ST. LOUIS (MO)
KMOX
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The Archdiocese of St. Louis has issued a statement addressing the controversy surrounding remarks made by Archbishop Robert Carlson in a videotaped deposition released Monday.
The case concerns allegations of abuse against a Minnesota priest in the St. Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese in 1984, when Carlson was an Auxiliary Bishop.
During the deposition, the plaintiff’s attorney asks Archbishop Carlson if he knew it was a crime for an adult to engage in sex with a child, to which Carlson responds, “I’m not sure whether I knew it was a crime or not. I understand today it’s a crime.”
The statement released by the Archdiocese of St. Louis on Wednesday morning notes that neither Archbishop Carlson nor the Archdiocese of St. Louis is a party to the case.
“Further, the Archbishop has been previously deposed by the same Plaintiff’s counsel on at least three separate prior occasions in the 1980s focused on the activities of the same priest that he was again asked about last month – 27 years later,” the statement reads.
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