ST. LOUIS (MO)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Archdiocese of St. Louis ordered to produce 20 years of documents on sexual abuse
By Lilly Fowler
A judge has ordered the Archdiocese of St. Louis to produce two decades worth of internal documents on sexual abuse allegations.
Thomas J. Prebil is only the second judge to attempt to compel the archdiocese to hand over such an extensive number of records.
The order, released earlier this week, is part of a civil lawsuit filed in St. Louis County Circuit Court involving the parents of a man from Florissant who sued the archdiocese over the suicide of their son.
The parents argue their son’s suicide in 2009 was the result of sexual and emotional abuse by Bryan Kuchar, a Roman Catholic priest at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Shrewsbury.
The documents are needed in order to show that the archdiocese had a pattern of reassigning problem priests, plaintiff lawyers argue.
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