(SC Times) The former St. John\u2019s Prep School student had occasionally tried to find information about the Rev. Francisco Schulte in the years since he was an altar boy at a North Carolina church where Schulte had once served.
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\nWhen he did a Google search in January for Schulte, he found one of the first links was to a website started by an abuse survivor named Pat Marker.<\/p>\n
BehindthePineCurtain.com had been around in some form since 2002, but in recent months has added waves of new information about the monks of St. John\u2019s Abbey. Its \u201cMeet the Monks\u201d section reads like a history of the abbey, with profiles of each monk gleaned from official order directories.<\/p>\n
The man who filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Schulte \u201cwas overwhelmed\u201d by the information he found on Schulte, including learning for the first time that Schulte likely had other victims besides him, said Jeff Anderson, the attorney who is representing the man known publicly as John Doe SS.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis website and the effort by Pat Marker is one of the most significant achievements in child protection in the country, in terms of dissemination of information and speaking and telling the stories,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n
BehindthePineCurtain.com was launched in 2002 as the \u201cAbuse Disclosure Project.\u201d It was taken down by the former St. John\u2019s Preparatory School student and clergy molestation victim when he joined the St. John\u2019s Abbey external review board.<\/p>\n
Marker resigned from the board in 2006 in protest of what he said was abbey foot-dragging in making public the names of monks and priests with credible allegations of sexual abuse against them. A few days after resigning, Marker relaunched the website under the new name as a resource for people interested in the history of sexual abuse and misconduct in Collegeville.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I wanted it to be done, it wasn\u2019t going to get done in Collegeville,\u201d Marker said. \u201cIt was going to have to be done by someone on the outside.\u201d<\/p>\n
Using abbey bulletins, official directories and news accounts, Marker has assembled an extensive repository of information about St. John\u2019s Abbey and its members. The abbey has expressed concern in the past about the truthfulness of some of the information on the site.<\/p>\n
Marker stands by it and said his website will continue to put out the information.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a powerful tool for survivors,\u201d said Anderson, \u201cand it\u2019s really the alarm bell being sounded every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20100519\/NEWS01\/105190020<\/p>\n
Website sheds light on abbey history
\nBY DAVID UNZE
\nDUNZE@STCLOUDTIMES.COM
\nMAY 19, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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