{"id":7818,"date":"2013-11-18T19:18:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=7818"},"modified":"2013-11-18T19:25:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T03:25:01","slug":"lawsuit-expected-against-st-johns-abbey-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/lawsuit-expected-against-st-johns-abbey-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit expected against St. John&#8217;s Abbey, priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Fr_Fran_Hoefgen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7815\" alt=\"Fr_Fran_Hoefgen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Fr_Fran_Hoefgen-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>(SC Times) A press conference has been scheduled for Tuesday morning in St. Paul to announce the filing of a clergy sex abuse lawsuit against a former St. John\u2019s Abbey priest.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The lawsuit names as defendants the Rev. Fran Hoefgen, St. John\u2019s Abbey, the archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and St. Luke Institute, a renowned treatment facility in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit is being filed on behalf of a 30-year-old Minnesota man who accuses Hoefgen of sexually abusing him at a Hastings parish where Hoefgen was assigned after being sent to St. Luke for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Hoefgen before that had served at a Cold Spring parish, where he was accused of sexually abusing a boy. That accusation led to his evaluation at St. Luke. No criminal charges were filed against Hoefgen.<\/p>\n<p>He was among the list of monks named in 2002 as being on restrictions at the abbey. That same year Hoefgen wrote an apology that ran in a Twin Cities newspaper and which expressed his anguish and sorrow at what he had done in the Cold Spring incident.<\/p>\n<p>Read Entire Article and Comments\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20131118\/NEWS01\/311180062\/Lawsuit-expected-against-St-John-s-Abbey-priest\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SC Times) A press conference has been scheduled for Tuesday morning in St. Paul to announce the filing of a clergy sex abuse lawsuit against a former St. John\u2019s Abbey priest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fran-hoefgen","wp-image-borders"],"views":902,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818","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=7818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7822,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions\/7822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}