MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 07/02/2014
A Twin Cities man has sued the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese, claiming that a priest not previously listed by the church as among known abusers raped him when he was an altar boy at Guardian Angels Church in Hastings.
More often, the Rev. Alphonsus Ferguson would kiss and fondle him in a church vestibule after Mass and pluck a nickel or dime from the collection box as a reward, the now-75-year-old man said in an interview.
The plaintiff, identified in court documents as John Doe 110, claimed that Ferguson would call him into the church rectory in the early 1950s and take him into his bedroom. He then anally raped him, the man said.
The assaults “tore and damaged (the boy’s) rectum so severely that plaintiff now suffers from rectal fissures,” the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court, asserted.
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