ST. PAUL (MN)
Jeff Anderson & Associates
MEDIA ADVISORY: FORMER BOY SCOUT TO SPEAK ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE BY SCOUTMASTER RICHARD HOKANSON IN ROCHESTER
Media Advisory
September 10, 2013
St. Paul News Conference Wednesday
Former Boy Scout to Speak About Sexual Abuse by
Scoutmaster Richard Hokanson in Rochester
Attorney to discuss “Perversion Files” from 1999-2008
and the BSA’s failure to warn about pedophiles in scouting
WHAT: At a news conference on Wednesday in St. Paul, prominent sexual abuse attorney Jeff Anderson will:
• Announce the filing of a lawsuit involving the National Boy Scouts of America Foundation d/b/a The Boys Scouts of America (BSA) filed under the new Minnesota Child Victims Act. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of a former Boy Scout Doe 17, names the Boy Scouts of America, Gamehaven Council, Inc., St. Pius X Catholic Church, troop sponsor, and former troop leader and convicted child molester Richard Hokanson, as defendants.
• Introduce survivor, Doe 17, who has courageously decided to speak publicly about the abuse he suffered by Hokanson from the age of 11-16 while a member of Troop 210 in Rochester, Minnesota.
• Two sets of IV Perversion Files, one already made public in an Oregon sexual abuse case, and the second, not yet able to be publicly released but intended to be used at a cancelled trial in Ramsey County this week, will be in boxes at the news conference.
• Alert the community and other sexual abuse survivors in Minnesota about the Child Victims Act and encourage them to come forward and tell others about the new legislation.
WHEN: Wednesday, September 11th at 11:00 AM
WHERE: Offices of Jeff Anderson & Associates
366 Jackson Street, Suite 100
St. Paul, MN 55101
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