MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 10/29/2013 12:01:00 AM CDT | UPDATED: 86 MIN. AGO
A woman who alleged she was sexually abused by a former St. Paul priest filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court.
The woman, identified as Jane Doe 23, said the Rev. Robert M. Thurner abused her when she was a young girl at the Church of St. Joseph in West St. Paul.
That happened after Thurner admitted to archdiocese officials in 1982 that he sexually abused a 16-year-old boy and bought alcohol for him, the lawsuit alleged.
The archdiocese transferred Thurner to St. Joseph’s after the incident with the boy, according to the suit.
The woman’s attorneys, Jeff Anderson and Mike Finnegan, plan to release internal documents Tuesday afternoon describing meetings between top archdiocesan officials and Thurner, they said. Officials did not report the sexual abuse by Thurner to law enforcement, they alleged.
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