MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 11/14/2013
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has hired a Los Angeles-based management consulting firm to review clergy files in the wake of continuing revelations of sexual misconduct by priests.
Kinsale Management Consulting, led by Kathleen McChesney, in early December will look at “all clergy in active ministry,” said a statement Thursday by archdiocese spokesman Jim Accurso.
The firm’s website says it has “performed security strategy and crisis management reviews for multinational corporations and nonprofit agencies” and “confidential internal investigations of employee misconduct,” among other services.
McChesney spent 24 years with the FBI, retiring at the No. 3 position in the agency, the archdiocese said. She also led the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office for Child and Youth Protection and worked as vice president for global security for the Walt Disney Co. after her career in law enforcement, according to online biographies.
At the bishops’ office, she “developed and oversaw a national compliance mechanism to ensure that all Catholic dioceses complied with civil laws and internal policies relative to the prevention, reporting and response to the sexual abuse of minors,” the archdiocese statement said.
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