MINNESOTA
KSTP

[documents – Jeff Anderson & Associates]

By: Jennie Olson

Three new clergy abuse civil lawsuits are expected to be announced Thursday.

Attorney Jeff Anderson is filing the lawsuits in Ramsey and Stearns County on behalf of four people who say they were sexually abused.

The Order of St. Benedict and St. John’s Abbey, the Diocese of St. Cloud, the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and Richard Eckroth are all named as defendants.

During a news conference Thursday in St. Paul, Anderson is also expected to ask the Diocese of St. Cloud and St. John’s Abbey to release all files of clerics who have been credibly accused of abuse. St. John’s has already named 22 clerics, and the Diocese of St. Cloud has named 33.