MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Richard Chin
rchin@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 06/25/2014
A former top official in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis will have to undergo further questioning in a sexual abuse lawsuit against the church, according to a decision Wednesday by a Ramsey County judge.
The Rev. Kevin McDonough, former vicar general for the archdiocese, had been required to give depositions in a lawsuit about the church’s handling of child-abusing priests.
District Judge John Van de North ruled in a hearing on the lawsuit of a plaintiff known at Doe 1. Doe 1 is suing the archdiocese, alleging former priest Thomas Adamson molested him in 1976 or 1977 when Adamson served at St. Thomas Aquinas in St. Paul Park.
Van de North also said Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt won’t be questioned again by attorneys suing the church.
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