In 1969, Fr. Bruce Wollmering O.S.B from St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota (USA) abused a 14 year old St. John’s Preparatory student.<\/p>\n
Between 1975 and 1980, Wollmering had relationships with at least three of his students.<\/p>\n
Between 1984-1986, through his \u201crole of psychologist, counselor and\/or spiritual advisor,\u201d Wollmering \u201cdeceived\u201d Doe into \u201cengaging in sexual contact with him under the guise of providing religious instruction and emotional counseling.\u201d [ View<\/a> ]\n In the summer of 1990, a St. John’s University student was fondled and propositioned by Wollmering.<\/p>\n In 2001, Wollmering told a St. John’s University graduate that he was in love with one of his students.<\/p>\n On at least three occasions, the last occurring in approximately 2002, Wollmering took a student skinny dipping.<\/p>\n In approximately 2002, Wollmering bragged about taking a student to the monks’ cabin. Wollmering also said that the student had trouble holding his liquor. The incident was not reported by a University employee, for fear of retaliation.<\/p>\n In 2002, Wollmering engaged in misconduct with one of his students. The misconduct continued into 2003. The student filed a complaint which led to Wollmering’s resignation from his teaching\/counseling duties. Wollmering would claim later that the victim was “troubled” and had “issues” and that he (Wollmering) engaged in nothing more than “locker room talk.” [ View<\/a> ]\n Wollmering’s Partial Timeline of Misconduct<\/strong> In 1969, Fr. Bruce Wollmering O.S.B from St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota (USA) abused a 14 year old St. John’s Preparatory student. Between 1975 and 1980, Wollmering had relationships with at least three of his students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-wollmering","wp-image-borders"],"views":6554,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","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=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOriginally Published on: Oct 27, 2010 @ 23:54<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"