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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. He said the suspect had
argued with the boy's mother
earlier in the day, though their
relationship was not immediate
ly clear.
The suspect was arrested
about an hour later at a liquor
store in Kansas City, 20 miles
away. Kansas City police
spokesman Tony Sanders said
police got a tip that the man had
said he was trying to get out of
town because he had just shot
someone.
The identities and ages of the
victims were not immediately
provided. Police said the boy
died at the scene.
The schoolchildren were taken
to a nearby movie theater to
await the arrival of their parents.
Among the pupils was the boy's
sister, who police say saw the
shooting.
Ed Ludwig hurried to the the
ater to retrieve his 7-year-old
granddaughter, a second-grader,
after hearing about the shooting
on television.
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