“The shame is no longer mine,” Ramsey County Board Chairman Jim McDonough said.

For 44 years — as a husband and father, working as a glazier for the public schools, volunteering for community programs and through five elections to the Ramsey County Board — Jim McDonough kept the secret.

But on his 60th birthday Tuesday, the Ramsey County Board chairman couldn’t keep it to himself any longer. Thanks to the Minnesota Child Victims Act, he said, he no longer had to.

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