MINNESOTA
KAAL
[with video]
By: Todd Wilson
A former Minnesota man says he’s finally getting justice for what a Catholic priest did to him.
Fifty-four-year-old Jon Jaker says Fr. Thomas Stitts sexually abused him at St. Leo’s Catholic Church in St. Paul in 1971.
Stitts died in 1985 but now, after a change in state law, the victim sued the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The church says this is the first case filed under the state’s Child Victims Act to be settled. Jaker and his mother Yvonne settled the case Wednesday morning.
Jon said it was a long time coming and he finally has some justice. He hopes others will follow him to find their own closure.
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