MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By John Brewer
jbrewer@pioneerpress.com
Posted: 07/10/2013
St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson (Pioneer Press file photo: Ben Garvin)
The most powerful men in Waverly, Minn., in the 1960s were the banker and the parish priest.
That’s why when the Rev. John T. Brown told the parents of 10-year-old David Pususta to send him over to the rectory for sex education, they sent him.
It was on that summer night, Pususta, now of St. Paul, said Wednesday morning, that Brown first sexually abused him.
Pususta said that during Brown’s sex education, he stroked, gripped and tugged the boy’s private parts.
Pususta spoke at a news conference at the St. Paul offices of attorney Jeff Anderson, who, on Pususta’s behalf, filed a notice of intervention in Ramsey County District Court to unseal a list of 33 priests credibly accused of sexual abuse.
Anderson, who first saw the list in 2009, said he couldn’t say whether Brown was included. But the public should know who is included, he and Pususta said, so no more children are put at risk and any abusers can be held accountable.
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