Minnesota Archbishop Tells Court He Thought Pedophilia Was Legal
Baxter Dmitry
YourNewsWire.com
May 24, 2017
Pedophilia and child abuse is so widespread and normalized among Catholic priests that one archbishop did not even realize it was against the law, according to court documents.
Archbishop Robert Carlson, who is embroiled in a child sex cover up scandal, claims he didn’t know it was illegal for priests to have sex with children in the 1980s.
‘I’m not sure whether I knew it was a crime or not,’ Carlson responded. ‘I understand today it’s a crime.’
Archbishop Robert Carlson, who was chancellor of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul at the time, was deposed as part of a sexual abuse lawsuit in Minnesota involving the archdiocese and the Diocese of Winona.
When asked when he first realized it was a crime for an adult – including priests – to have sex with a child, Carlson, 69, shook his head.
‘I don’t remember,’ he testified.
Daily Mail reports: Yet according to other documents released by attorney Jeff Anderson, who is representing an alleged clergy abuse victim, Carlson showed clear knowledge that sexual abuse was a crime when discussing incidents with church officials during his time in Minnesota.
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