MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
By Jean Hopfensperger and Chao Xiong Star Tribune Staff Writers
A contentious back-and-forth emerges in the court-ordered deposition of the Rev. Kevin McDonough, the longtime point person on Catholic priest sexual misconduct at the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, was publicly released Thursday.
The six-hour testimony was released by Jeff Anderson, attorney for an alleged child abuse victim known as John Doe 1. The archdiocese also made the 320-page deposition available on its website.
Anderson associate Mike Finnegan said McDonough is “far and away the most knowledgeable” person in the archdiocese regarding sex abuse.
McDonough denied repeatedly any cover up, Finnegan said, and minimized priests’ conduct.
“Kevin McDonough’s actions put countless kids at risk. He chose to keep information about child sex abuse in the inner circle.”
Another Anderson colleague, Sarah Odegaard said, McDonough “denied and minimized” what he knew about the case of former priest Curtis Wehmeyer and his risk to kids. Wehmeyer, former pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church in St. Paul, was sentenced to five years in prison last year for abusing two brothers in a trailer parked outside the church.
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