{"id":516,"date":"2009-12-17T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T16:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=516"},"modified":"2009-12-17T08:15:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T16:15:38","slug":"lawsuit-filed-against-st-johns-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/lawsuit-filed-against-st-johns-abbey\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit filed against St. John&#8217;s abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second lawsuit in two weeks was filed Wednesday against St. John&#8217;s Abbey.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe lawsuit accuses the abbey of fraud and contends that three monks either solicited or engaged in sexual misconduct with a former St. John&#8217;s University student.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed in Stearns County District Court, alleges that the student was abused while attending St. John&#8217;s from 1982-1986. It names the Rev. John Kelly, the Rev. Finian McDonald and now-deceased Rev. Bruce Wollmering as those who were inappropriate with the student.<br \/>\n<!--\nThe lawsuit doesn't identify the student, only saying that he is in his 40s and lives in Washington state.\n\nWollmering was the subject of a fraud lawsuit filed last week that accused the abbey of knowing about an allegation of sexual misconduct against Wollmering but continuing to allow him to have access to students at St. John's Preparatory School in Collegeville.\n\nAbbot John Klassen in 2001 identified Kelly and McDonald as two of about a dozen monks or priests who had restrictions placed on them after allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nThe lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses the abbey of knowing about abuse allegations against Kelly, McDonald and Wollmering and keeping that information from current and prospective students.\n--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2009112160055\"><strong>Read Entire Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2009112160055\">Lawsuit filed against St. John&#8217;s abbey<\/a><br \/>\nDavid Unze<br \/>\nstcloudtimes.com<br \/>\nDecember 17, 2009 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second lawsuit in two weeks was filed Wednesday against St. John&#8217;s Abbey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,51,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-wollmering","category-finian-mcdonald","category-john-kelly","category-john-klassen","wp-image-borders"],"views":457,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}