MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Madeleine Baran Apr 27, 2015
Saint John’s Abbey has reached a settlement with a man who said he was sexually abused as a teenager by a Benedictine monk.
The man, known in court filings as Doe 2, sued Saint John’s Abbey in 2013 for allegedly failing to protect him from sexual abuse by the Rev. Allen Tarlton in the late 1970s.
Attorney Jeff Anderson, who represents Doe 2, said the settlement will require Saint John’s Abbey to release the files of 19 monks accused of sexually abusing children and provide a financial settlement for an amount that will not be publicly disclosed.
Saint John’s Abbey declined to describe the agreement. “Out of respect for the privacy of the parties involved and the agreement we have made, we have no further comment on this settlement,” it said in a statement Monday.
The lawsuit, filed in Stearns County, accused Tarlton of abusing the boy in about 1977 when he lived on campus as a student at Saint John’s Preparatory School in Collegeville. Tarlton was the boy’s English teacher. It said the abbey knew of abuse allegations against Tarlton nearly two decades earlier and failed to call police or warn students and parents.
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