MINNESOTA
KSTP
[with video]
By: Jay Kolls
A member of the Catholic Church tells 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS she reported possible abuse of young boys by a priest to Archdiocese officials and nothing was done about.
Mary Tacheny attended the Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Maplewood and witnessed a Priest who had “crossed boundaries” with young boys. Tacheny says, “I reported the incidents I saw to Father Kevin McDonough and he lied to me about conducting an investigation into it.” Father McDonough, at the time, was the second-in-command at the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
Tacheny says Father McDonough told her “there is no smoking gun and there is nothing more to do with this investigation.” Tacheny says she approached the people Father McDonough told her he had spoken to and says “not one of them knew what I was talking about. They told me Father McDonough had never talked to them about possible abuse by a priest at the Church.
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