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Article by: JEAN HOPFENSPERGER , Star Tribune Updated: February 11, 2014
Ramsey County judge considers whether church must turn over internal files on clergy abusers.
A Ramsey District Court judge will hear arguments Tuesday afternoon over whether Catholic church officials should be required to turn over their internal documents related to clergy child sex offenders, and whether top officials from the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis should be required to give depositions on an abuse case.
The hearing is at 3 p.m. before Judge John Van de North.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of an alleged abuse victim seeks both documents and depositions as part of its investigation. The suit, filed in May 2013, asked for permission to take depositions from Archbishop John Nienstedt and the Rev. Kevin McDonough, who was the archdiocese’ point person on sex offenses for years.
The archdiocese has argued that the information was not relevant to the case of John Doe 1, who charged that he was abused by former priest Tom Adamson between 1976 and 1977.
The archdiocese also claimed it was an excuse to get more information from the archdiocese about its handling of abuse complaints.
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