MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
A former Twin Cities bishop who now leads the Archdiocese of St. Louis responded 193 times in a court-ordered deposition that he could not remember details about priest child sexual abuse during his tenure.
Archbishop Robert James Carlson served from 1979 to 1994 as a top handler of priest abuse cases in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, attorney Jeffrey Anderson said.
Anderson represents victims of childhood sexual abuse, including a man who sued in May 2013 alleging he was molested by former priest Thomas Adamson while he served in St. Paul Park.
“He doesn’t remember anything about what he did,” Anderson said about Carlson at a Monday news conference in St. Paul.
“The sad and sorrowful thing is the victims of these abuses that had been concealed for so long by so many trusted figures have to remember.”
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