MINNESOTA
St. Cloud Times
The Associated Press 5:28 p.m. CDT June 21, 2014
WINONA — The Diocese of Winona says the reason it’s still paying a monthly pension to a defrocked pedophile priest is because it’s legally obligated to do so, even though he committed “horrific crimes” against children.
Thomas Adamson acknowledged in a legal deposition that he sexually abused 12 teens as he was moved from one parish to another from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. He’s been laicized but he continues to receive a monthly pension of about $1,650 from the diocese.
A Winona Daily News report on Saturday says the diocese is now responding, a week after the revelations were made public by a law firm suing the diocese.
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