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Victim asks second court to sanction archbishop
His emergency writ appeal is “frivolous,” she says
In a new 51 page court filing, a 20 year old St. Louis woman who says she was repeatedly molested by an already-convicted Catholic priest asks that St. Louis’ Catholic archbishop be punished for an allegedly “frivolous” recent motion he submitted to a Missouri appeals court.
Last month, Archbishop Robert Carlson was sanctioned by St. Louis Judge Robert Dierker, in the same case, for refusing – for more than six months – to turn over names of accused child molesting clerics to the young woman’s attorneys.
Carlson’s legal conduct, Dierker wrote, “borders on if not amounts to contempt.”
Now, however, the alleged victim in that case charges that in a “writ” filed days ago with an appeals court, Carlson is guilty of “misrepresentations” and “inaccuracies” and should be sanctioned again.
“After seven months of briefing, three motions to reconsider, four oral arguments and multiple instances of failure to comply by the (archdiocese),” Carlson still hasn’t turned over a single predator’s name to the woman’s lawyers.
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