MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
[the lawsuit – Jeff Anderson & Associates]
[Rev. Michael Keating photo]
[statement of Doe 20]
[letter to Doe 20 from the archdiocese]
By Emily Gurnon and Andy Greder
Pioneer Press
POSTED: 10/14/2013
A St. Paul priest and University of St. Thomas professor was named in a lawsuit Monday by a woman who said he abused her when she was a minor.
The girl, identified as “Doe 20” in the suit, alleged that between about 1997 and 2000, Michael Jerome Keating “engaged in multiple instances of unpermitted, harmful, and offensive sexual contact” with her. Keating, now 57, was a seminary student at the time.
The lawsuit, filed Monday morning in Ramsey County District Court, said Keating was ordained in 2002 and served as a priest at St. John the Baptist church in New Brighton from 2003 to 2005.
Attorney Jeff Anderson, who is representing the woman, said more details will be released at a news conference Monday afternoon.
The woman went to the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis with her claims in 2006. Specifically, she reported the abuse to then-Archbishop Harry Flynn, then-vicar general Rev. Kevin McDonough, then-chancellor of civil affairs Andrew Eisenzimmer, Greta Sawyer and the Clergy Review Board, according to the lawsuit.
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