MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Madeleine Baran Aug 20, 2015
The prior of the monastery at Saint John’s Abbey has stepped aside because of an allegation of sexual misconduct involving a former student at Saint John’s Preparatory School, according to a spokesperson for the abbey in Collegeville, Minn.
The Rev. Tom Andert will “step back from public ministry and from his work until an investigation is completed,” the Rev. Aelred Senna, the abbey spokesperson, said in an email to MPR News. Andert declined to comment.
Senna said he did not know if the abbey had reported the allegation to law enforcement. “It is our policy to do that,” he said.
However, local law enforcement have no record of any report, according to Lt. Jon Lentz, of the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office, who searched records for the sheriff’s office and local police.
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