MINNESOTA
KAAL
By: Jennie Olson
More details were unleashed Monday about five monks from Saint John’s Abbey who are accused of sexually abusing children.
Attorneys Jeff Anderson and Mike Bryant released the files on the five monks, which were obtained after a 2013 lawsuit in Ramsey County. The files include Robert Blumeyer, Cosmas Dahlheimer, Thomas Gillespie, Francis Hoefgen and Brennan Maiers, the attorneys say.
The attorneys have also announced a new sexual abuse lawsuit to be filed in Stearns County against a priest accused of abusing two boys back in the 1970s. The young boys were parishioners at St. Joseph’s when they say they were sexually abused at a cabin in northern Minnesota.
The lawsuit named Richard Eckroth, the Order of St. Benedict and St. John’s Abbey, Anderson said.
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