MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
The former Twin Cities archbishop said in a six-hour deposition that he could not recall any circumstances involving sexual abuse of children by priests that “should have been handled better.”
Harry J. Flynn was asked whether there were any such situations during his 13 years as archbishop.
“No. I can’t think of any,” Flynn said. Nor did he believe there was ever a “crisis” pertaining to child sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
He said he never reported information about suspected abusers to police, and didn’t know whether anyone on his staff did.
Attorney Jeffrey Anderson took Flynn’s deposition May 14 as a part of a lawsuit filed in May 2013 against the archdiocese and former priest Thomas Adamson. Anderson’s office released a transcript and video copy of the deposition Wednesday.
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