The Deacon's Bench
You may remember this item from several days back. Now the priest at the center of the controversy has quit. Details:
A Catholic priest who was removed in 2009 from churches after allegations he abused a teen girl has resigned from a center for pregnant teens in Eastpointe that he cofounded, Catholic officials said this week.
The Rev. Kenneth Kaucheck, 69, was the cofounder, development director and a board member of Gianna House, a new Catholic center to help teen girls who are pregnant. But after a Free Press report last week on his position there, officials with the center and the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit now are saying he has resigned and no longer works there.
Kaucheck’s name has been scrubbed from Gianna House’s website, which used to say that Kaucheck cofounded the center along with Sister Mary Diane Masson, executive director at the House and that he selected the board along with Masson.
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