{"id":1186,"date":"2010-05-18T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2010-05-18T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:45:30","slug":"former-prep-school-student-sues-school-monk-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/former-prep-school-student-sues-school-monk-abbey\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Prep School student sues school, monk, abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former St. John\u2019s Prep student is suing the school, a monk who used to teach at the school and the Order of St. Benedict and St. John\u2019s Abbey, alleging a cover-up of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe lawsuit accuses the Rev. Raymond Francisco Schulte of abusing the boy in the mid-1980s and accuses St. John\u2019s Abbey and the Order of St. Benedict of concealing a pattern of abuse by Schulte and other members.<\/p>\n<p>View Full Story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20100518\/NEWS01\/105180082\/Former-Prep-School-student-sues-school--monk--abbey\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\nThe school and abbey have not yet returned phone calls requesting comment on the suit.\n\nSchulte, who is known by the names Father Ray and Father Francisco, was listed as a monk subject to restrictions in fall 2002. Schulte later requested and was granted a leave from the abbey and recently was in Rome giving tours of a monastery there.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges that Schulte sexually abused a boy in North Carolina in the 1980s when the boy as an altar boy and when Schulte was serving a parish there as a liaison to the Hispanic community. The lawsuit also accuses Schulte of abusing the boy on a trip to Mexico. It accuses Schulte of recruiting the boy to enroll at St. John\u2019s Prep. The boy and his brother enrolled at the Prep School, but left before graduating.\n\nThe suit accuses Schulte of abusing three boys at a boarding school in Puerto Rico, where Schulte was assigned as a priest and teacher. It accuses Schulte of recruiting at least one of the boys to attend St. John\u2019s Prep at the time when Schulte returned to teaching at the Prep School.\n\nThe lawsuit accuses the Prep School, Order of St. Benedict and Abbey of knowing about Schulte\u2019s history of abuse and concealing it, along with abuse perpetrated by several other monks. The lawsuit alleges that the cover-up was intended to protect priests from criminal prosecution, \u201cmaintain or increase charitable contributions and\/or avoid public scandal,\u201d according to the suit.\n\nThe lawsuit was filed in Ramsey County District Court by attorney Jeff Anderson, who represented 13 victims in a settlement with St. John\u2019s in 2002 that was hailed as landmark. The suit against Schulte and St. John\u2019s Abbey was filed because promises made by the abbey at the time of the settlement \u201cseem to have been broken,\u201d Anderson said.\n\nOne of the promises in the settlement, he said, was that St. John\u2019s would place restrictions on members who had credible allegations against them of sexual misconduct. Allowing Schulte to travel to Rome while remaining a member of the Order of St. Benedict \u201cseems to be a direct, grievous\u201d violation of that promise, Anderson said.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re really sad and full of sorrow that this action is taken today,\u201d Anderson said.\n\n--><\/p>\n<p>Former Prep School student sues school, monk, abbey<br \/>\nDavid Unze &#8211; St. Cloud Times<br \/>\nMay 18, 1010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former St. John\u2019s Prep student is suing the school, a monk who used to teach at the school and the Order of St. Benedict and St. John\u2019s Abbey, alleging a cover-up of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,184,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-francisco-schulte","category-mexico","category-puerto-rico","wp-image-borders"],"views":1228,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}