MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
By Jean Hopfensperger Star Tribune NOVEMBER 24, 2015
The first batch of personnel files on monks accused of sex abuse at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville were released Tuesday, in which a former counselor and dormitory prefect at St. John’s University reported having 200 sexual encounters — some with St. John students.
The Rev. Finian McDonald told a psychologist that his youngest victims were 13 or 14 year old prostitutes in Thailand, that he had 18 victims while serving as a prefect at St. John’s dormitories, and that he had acted out sexually and abused alcohol during most of his 29 years as a dormitory prefect.
That information, from a 2012 psychological assessment, is contained in abbey personnel files on McDonald and four other monks credibly accused of child sex abuse that were released in response to an abuse victim’s legal settlement earlier this year.
The abbey has identified 19 such monks to date, and their personnel files have been turned over to attorney Jeff Anderson.
“This reflects to us … that there are dozens and hundreds of survivors that are yet to be known and yet to have a voice,” said Anderson at a news conference.
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