ST. LOUIS (MO)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Doug Moore dmoore@post-dispatch.com 314-340-81251
The Archdiocese of St. Louis does not have to, for now, turn over the names of priests accused of sexual abuse.
On Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court issued a stay, allowing the names to remain a secret “until further notice from the court.”
The archdiocese sought the ruling after an appellate court ordered Thursday that two decades worth of sexual abuse allegations against archdiocese priests must be released. The deadline to do so had been set for 2 p.m. Monday.
The information is being sought as part of civil suit, filed in 2011 on behalf of a then-19-year old woman. The woman, listed in court filings as Jane Doe, said she was sexually abused from 1997 to 2001 by Joseph Ross, a now-defrocked priest.
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