MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 06/09/2014
A former Twin Cities bishop who now leads the St. Louis archdiocese responded 193 times in a court-ordered deposition that he could not remember details about priest child sexual abuse during his tenure.
The Rev. Robert James Carlson served from 1979 to 1994 as a top handler for priest abuse cases in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, according to attorney Jeffrey Anderson.
Anderson represents victims of childhood sexual abuse, including Doe 1, a man who sued last May alleging that he was molested by former priest Thomas Adamson while he served in St. Paul Park.
“He doesn’t remember anything about what he did,” Anderson said about Carlson at a Monday press conference in his St. Paul office.
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