MINNESOTA
KAAL
Scott Theisen
Updated: 04/28/2016
Attorneys plan to discuss the filing of two civil lawsuits against a recently reinstated priest accused of sexual abuse.
St. Paul attorneys Jeff Anderson and Mike Bryant will have a news conference Thursday morning to discuss the suits naming the Rev. Timothy Backous and St. John’s Abbey. The attorneys are representing two men known as Doe 413 and Doe 188.
One man claims he was abused by Backous at St. John’s Prep School between 1982 and 1983 when he was 16 years old.
The other man claims he was abused during a 1990 choir trip to Europe when he was as a member of the St. John’s Boys Choir. He was 12 to 13 years old at the time.
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