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PRESS ADVISORY
September 10, 2008

While supposedly living with top church official, priest molests 3 year old

After he's arrested, archdiocese helps him flee to his native South America

Prosecutors then declined to pursue 2006-07 child sex crimes involving young girl

New civil child molestation and cover up case against Catholic hierarchy is filed

In rare move, lawsuit includes Ecuador diocese as a defendant too

WHAT
At a news conference, a pre-school victim's attorneys will announce and discuss a new child molestation and
cover up lawsuit involving recent child sex crimes. It's against two dioceses (one here, one in South America) and
a pedophile priest who
-- lived with a high ranking Twin Cities Catholic official,
-- molested a Minnesota girl,
-- was arrested, but
-- has since left the country with the help of local church staff

The predator is now believed to be living in Ecuador.

WHEN
TODAY, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1:00 p.m.

WHERE
At the law offices of Jeff Anderson, 336 Jackson (corner of Fifth) in downtown St. Paul MN

WHO
Two attorneys (and a Spanish-speaking legal assistant) who represent this young victim and also represent
hundreds of other men and women who were abused as kids by teachers, coaches, ministers, and other authority
figures

WHY
In 2001, Fr. Francisco Montero a/k/a Fr. Francisco "Fredy" Montero was assigned to live with Fr. Kevin
McDonough, vicar general of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. From 2006 to 2007, Montero, a
native of Ecuador, repeatedly molested a girl when she was three and four years old.

He arrived in Minnesota in February or March of 2001and was assigned to Incarnation parish in Minneapolis,
where the girl's family belonged. (It's also called Comunidad Sagrado Corazon de Jesus). Montero provided the
mom 'counseling' while abusing her young daughter. After Montero was arrested for the abuse, McDonough
helped Montero leave the US, the lawsuit says.

A Spanish speaking Twin Cities legal assistant recently called Montero in Ecuador. He admitted he's now
working in a Catholic parish there.

While in Minnesota, Montero, now 31, also said masses at St. John Newman in Eagan, MN and started a
newspaper and radio show, both in Spanish.

The suit, filed late yesterday in Ramsey County and served on the archdiocese, seeks unspecified damages.
Defendants include the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Guaranda Diocese in Ecuador.

CONTACT
St. Paul attorneys Jeff Anderson (651 227 9990, 612 817 8665 cell) and Mike Finnegan (651 227 9990, 612
205 5531 cell), and legal assistant Ivonne Manay (Spanish-speaking, 651 227 9990) or Minnesota SNAP
Director Bob Schwiderski, (952-471-3422) (skibrs@mchsi.com)