MINNESOTA
KARE
[with video]
John Croman, KARE
September 19, 2014
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A group of clergy abuse survivors Thursday filed a public nuisance lawsuit against St. John’s Abbey and the Diocese of St. Cloud, claiming those organizations aren’t doing enough to police priests who’ve been credibly accused of abuse.
Two of those plaintiffs, John and Al Vogel, became victims in the early 1970’s, and were part of a lawsuit that was settled in 2002. At the time their attorney, Jeff Anderson, and their father, Raymond, celebrated the settlement.
“It helps me a great deal, the factor, the safety for the children,” Raymond Vogel told KARE in 2002. Vogel, who has since died, worked at St. John’s Abbey for 40 years and knew the priests his son’s accused.
But 12 years later John and Al Vogel were once again standing before the camera in the St. Paul law offices of Attorney Jeff Anderson, saying St. John’s and the Diocese weren’t taking all the steps necessary to reign in credibly accused violators.
“The deceit continues. Promises continue to be broken,” John Vogel, who now lives in Texas, told reporters.”
Al said promises were made in the 2002 settlement weren’t being taken seriously the Abbey and the Diocese.
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