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Records Reveal Minnesota Priests Raped Hundreds Of Children For Decades
Records which were made public on Tuesday revealed that Catholic priests in Minnesota engaged in a sustained and coordinated campaign of child rape as the Church kept the evidence buried.
Catholic priests at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville went to great lengths to keep their secret hidden from the public for decades.
The abbey was required to release its internal files as part of a lawsuit settled earlier this year. It marks the first time the abbey, implicated in clergy abuse cases for two decades, has opened its confidential files.
The files included psychiatric assessments of five priests, records of the abuse accusations and the responses from the abbey dating back from the 1960s to a few years ago.
Alternet reports:
The documents released regarding five abusive priests on Tuesday mark the first time the monastery has opened its records to the public after being embroiled in abuse lawsuits for more than 20 years. The files include psychiatric assessments of the five men, records of abuse allegations and the abbey’s responses dating back from the 1960s to the last few years, including records of one priest who molested more than 200 victims, all boys, from the sons of parishioners to child prostitutes as young as 13 in Thailand.
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