St. Louis Archbishop Deposed in Minnesota Case

Press & Dakotan
June 9, 2014

http://www.yankton.net/news/state_ap_sd/article_41d4f242-ce78-5180-9886-0c4b67074e5e.html

The head of the Archdiocese of St. Louis said under oath he couldn't recall details about how he handled allegations of abuse against a Minnesota priest years ago.

But Archbishop Robert Carlson did say he never went to authorities after that priest admitted in 1984 that he engaged in criminal sexual contact with a minor.

Carlson was deposed last month in a case against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, where Carlson served for years and had a role in investigating allegations of abuse from 1979 to 1994.

Messages left with the St. Louis archdiocese weren't immediately returned. The St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese had no comment.

Carlson left Minnesota in 1994 and served as bishop in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Saginaw, Michigan, before becoming St. Louis archbishop in 2009.