{"id":3585,"date":"2011-04-29T20:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T03:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2011-04-30T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T17:19:44","slug":"second-suit-alleges-abuse-by-st-johns-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/second-suit-alleges-abuse-by-st-johns-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"Second suit alleges abuse by St. John&#8217;s monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SC Times) A news conference has been scheduled for Monday in front of the Federico Degetau Federal Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to announce a new lawsuit against a St. John\u2019s Abbey monk and the Order of St. Benedict on behalf of a Puerto Rican man.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The man is alleging that he was sexually abused by the Rev. Raymond Francisco Schulte at the San Antonio Abad boarding school in Humacao in the late 1970s, when the man was a young teenager, according to the man\u2019s attorney, Jeff Anderson. At the time of the alleged abuse, the boarding school was operated and staffed by priests and brothers of the Order of St. Benedict.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Because the allegations are from the 1970s, the lawsuit might not be filed within the statute of limitations, said Mike Ford, attorney for the Order of St. Benedict. He was researching Puerto Rican law on the issue, he said.\n\nBut the Abbey\u2019s policy has been to discuss resolution of such lawsuits even if they have been filed after the statutory time frame has passed, he said. He anticipates that settlement discussions will happen in this case as well, even if it is filed after the statute of limitations has expired.\n\nIt\u2019s not the first lawsuit alleging abuse at the hands of Schulte, who also in known by the names Father Ray and Father Francisco. In May 2010, a lawsuit alleged that Schulte sexually abused an altar boy in North Carolina in the 1980s when he was serving a parish there as a liaison to the Hispanic community. The lawsuit accuses Schulte, who is fluent in Spanish, of abusing the boy on a trip to Mexico and 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\nThat lawsuit also accused Schulte of abusing three boys at a boarding school in Puerto Rico, where he was assigned as a priest and teacher. It accuses Schulte of recruiting at least one of the boys to attend St. John\u2019s Prep when Schulte returned to teaching there.\n\nAnderson has sued numerous religious organizations and this month won court-ordered access to some Vatican documents in a lawsuit he filed against the Holy See. --><\/p>\n<p>Read Entire Article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20110430\/NEWS01\/104290056\/2nd-suit-alleges-abuse-by-St-John-s-Abbey-monk-\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second suit alleges abuse by St. John&#8217;s monk<br \/>\n1:39 PM, Apr. 29, 2011<br \/>\nDavid Unze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SC Times) A news conference has been scheduled for Monday in front of the Federico Degetau Federal Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to announce a new lawsuit against a St. John\u2019s Abbey monk and the Order of St. Benedict &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/second-suit-alleges-abuse-by-st-johns-monk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,19,225,182,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-francisco-schulte","category-jeff-anderson","category-michael-ford","category-puerto-rico","category-san-antonio-abad","wp-image-borders"],"views":898,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","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=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}