MINNESOTA
Minnesota Daily
ByAlexi Gusso Nathaniel Rabuzzi October 22, 2013
Following recent sexual abuse allegations against a prominent local Catholic priest, Catholic University of Minnesota students and student groups are seeking truth and accountability.
Rev. Michael Keating of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has been sued for allegedly engaging in “multiple instances of unpermitted, harmful, and offensive sexual contact,” with an unnamed plaintiff while she was a minor, according to court summons.
The case follows recent allegations that church officials ignored or concealed issues brought to them regarding two other priests accused of possessing child pornography, one of whom has been convicted for abusing two children, according to a Minnesota Public Radio investigation.
Biochemistry and microbiology freshman Benji Schuneman said hearing about the allegations against Keating “hits a little close to home.”
Schuneman, who attended Catholic elementary and high schools in the Twin Cities, said he never knew Keating personally but had heard of him.
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