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NEWS [ E BATTALION Friday, November 8, 2002 .S. bishops name top FBI official to onitor clerical sex-abuse cleanup JwASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Roman Itholic bishops Thursday named the FBI’s 3 official to monitor the church’s new |jcy on clerical sex abuse and help prevent lure scandals. {Kathleen McChesney, 51, will be the first Jecutive director of the church’s Office for Jild and Youth Protection. It is a critical post ■the bishops seek to re-establish their credi- i Mity after a year in which at least 300 of the [,000 American priests have been removed icause of allegations of molestation. “Even one case of child abuse is intolera- e. Our churches need to be safe havens for eryone,” McChesney told a news confer- ice at the bishops’ headquarters, where she igins work Dec. 2. McChesney is described by colleagues as imeone with well-sharpened people skills id political instincts, and as a tough investi- itor despite a soft-spoken manner. In an interview, she had little hesitation hen she was asked to consider the post over e summer, despite the prospect of leaving a ^-enforcement career of 31 years. More than 40 candidates were considered r the job, said Monsignor William P. Fay, eneral secretary of the bishops’ conference, > made the appointment. A lifelong lay Catholic, McChesney has jllowed the church’s abuse scandal with rowing dismay since the 1997 cases that [most bankrupted the Dallas diocese, culmi- aling this year. But she expressed confidence that the merican bishops are determined to turn lings around. She said the National Review loard, which will monitor McChesney’s ffice and work with her to monitor the bish- ps’ performance, and her own office, are both unique. Those two steps, she said, “express that the bishops want to fix this problem. It’s not going to be me that fixes it. It’s going to be a lot of people.” . “The goal? No more cases.” Fay told reporters the review board, the office and other costs of the abuse policy would exceed $1 million next year. At the FBI, McChesney has been execu tive assistant director, responsible for liaison with the nation’s 18,000 law enforcement agencies and bureau operations in 44 foreign countries. The post was created by FBI Director Robert Mueller following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to improve coordination with local law enforcement. McChesney took that job last Dec. 1 after serving as special agent in charge of the Chicago office since 1999 and assis tant director of its training division since June 2001. She started with the county police in the Seattle area and joined the FBI in 1978 in San Francisco. FBI Director Robert Mueller said Thursday that McChesney “has distin guished herself and made important con tributions as an innovator and leader in the law enforcement community.” Walter Stowe, who was McChesney’s top aide at the Chicago FBI office, said “she is absolutely fearless, so controver sial issues are not going to be any problem for Kathleen.’ Prominent Washington attorney Robert S. Bennett ran the search for a director as a member of the National Review Board. “She was just made to order,” he said. Groups representing abuse victims praised the choice but said McChesney Church names abuse monitor Kathleen McChesney, 51, was named Thursday to head the Roman Catholic Church’s newly created Office for Child and Youth Protection. McChesney is leaving her job as FBI executive assistant director. ► Holds a Ph.D. in public administration ► Joined FBI in 1978 and assigned to its San Francisco office. ► Transferred in 1983 to Washington, D.C., headquarters. ► Worked in field offices in Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., and Chicago. McChesney SOURCES: Associated Press; FBI AP faces a tough job, made more difficult by changes that weaken the bishops’ original reform plan after talks at the Vatican. Proposed revisions to that plan will be discussed by all U.S. bishops at a Washington meeting starting Monday. McChesney’s office itself is not affected by the latest changes. NEWS IN BRIEF Mentally ill death row prisoner gets reprieve HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A mentally ill condemned killer won a reprieve from the Texas death chamber after his lawyers filed a last-minute appeal to the U S. Supreme Court that ques tioned his mental competency, lames Colburn, 42, a diag nosed paranoid schizophrenic, was set to die just after 6 p.m. Wednesday for choking and stabbing a 55-year-old hitchhik er in 1994. I The appeal was received at 559 p.m., one minute before Colburn could have been taken from his cell and strapped to the death chamber gurney, officials said. Two hours later, Colburn received the indefinite reprieve, which delays the execution at least 30 days while the court decides whether to review the case. Man shoots son, wife outside son's school LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) - A man waiting in a parking lot outside his son's school shot the fourth- grader to death and wounded the boy's mother Thursday after a domestic dispute, police said. The shootings happened around 12:30 p.m. as the woman was picking up the boy at St. James Catholic School, which serves 322 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Police Lt. Mark Misenhelter said the gunman was the child's father. 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