{"id":9101,"date":"2015-05-04T21:50:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T04:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=9101"},"modified":"2015-05-04T21:51:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T04:51:30","slug":"kare-11-settlement-may-shed-new-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/kare-11-settlement-may-shed-new-light\/","title":{"rendered":"(KARE 11) Settlement May Shed New Light &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGEVILLE, MN \u2013 The recent settlement of a civil lawsuit and an upcoming criminal trial are shedding light on sexual abuse allegations involving monks at St. John&#8217;s Abbey in Collegeville.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->One former Benedictine monk claims during his time there, officials at St. John&#8217;s Abbey turned a blind eye to sexual abuse and were part of a &#8220;pattern&#8221; of covering up for abusive monks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I contend that St. John&#8217;s produces, protects, fosters this kind of behavior,&#8221; says Richard Sipe.<\/p>\n<p>Sipe, who attended St. John&#8217;s and once served as a consultant on a task force on sexual abuse at St. John&#8217;s Abbey, claims sexual misconduct was a systemic problem.<\/p>\n<p>His allegations come on the heels of a settlement last week in the case of Troy Bramlage, who sued St. John&#8217;s Abbey for failing to protect him from sexual abuse by Father Allen Tarlton, back in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Entire Article and Watch the Video&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kare11.com\/longform\/news\/investigations\/2015\/05\/04\/settlement-new-light-alleged-sex-abuse-st-johns-abbey\/26904257\/\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Settlement may shed new light on alleged sexual abuse at St. John&#8217;s Abbey<br \/>\nKARE11 News (Minneapolis, MN)<br \/>\nMay 4, 2015<br \/>\nJulie Nelson, Anchor<br \/>\nSteve Eckert, Investigative Producer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGEVILLE, MN \u2013 The recent settlement of a civil lawsuit and an upcoming criminal trial are shedding light on sexual abuse allegations involving monks at St. John&#8217;s Abbey in Collegeville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allen-tarlton","category-aw-richard-sipe","category-robert-blumeyer","wp-image-borders"],"views":3220,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101","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=9101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9103,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101\/revisions\/9103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}