MINNESOTA
Star Tribune

Article by: EMMA NELSON , Star Tribune Updated: January 18, 2015

Bankruptcy halts clergy abuse cases, with victims watching for signs of change.

After nearly four decades, Bob Rich can still draw a map of the room where it happened.

He was 12 years old when a priest who was a visiting speaker at his school took him to lunch, sneaked him into an R-rated movie and then drove him back to the rectory and sexually abused him. The abuse continued until the summer before Rich left for college, all within a few miles of the Minnetonka neighborhood where he grew up.

After years spent away from Minnesota, a recent return has brought with it the flashbacks that Rich has tried for years to escape. He calls them “land mines,” and they’re everywhere: the wooded road where it happened for the last time, inside a parked…