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	Missouri Lawsuit: Former St. Cloud Bishop Knew of Abuse By Kirsti Marohn St. Cloud Times June 23, 2011 http://www.sctimes.com/Story_not_found [the lawsuit] A lawsuit filed Thursday against a Missouri abbey accuses Catholic Church officials — including former St. Cloud Bishop Jerome Hanus — of covering up sexual abuse by a former monk who spent several years at St. John’s University three decades ago. The lawsuit, filed in Nodaway County Circuit Court, alleges that then-Benedictine monk Bede Parry abused the unnamed plaintiff in 1987 during a summer choir camp at Conception Abbey in northwest Missouri while Parry was director of the boys’ choir. According to the lawsuit, Parry attended St. John’s University’s School of Theology in Collegeville from 1979 until 1982. The plaintiff, who filed the lawsuit under the name John Doe 181, claims the Missouri abbey knew Parry had sexually abused other students but took no action. Among those the lawsuit accuses of knowing about the abuse are Hanus, who at that time was abbot of Conception Abbey, and Jerome Theisen, former abbot of St. John’s.
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