February 22, 2006

Vianney president is accused of sex abuse

ST. LOUIS (MO)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

By Robert Patrick
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
02/21/2006

The president of St. John Vianney High School in Kirkwood temporarily stepped down Tuesday after a lawsuit accused him of having "sexually, physically and emotionally abused" a student.

He denied wrongdoing.

The suit, which also names Vianney and the Marianists, who run Vianney, says the Rev. Robert Osborne coerced the teenage student into drinking alcoholic beverages, made sexual comments to him, hugged and kissed him and made "other overt and covert sexual contact with him."

Posted by kshaw at February 22, 2006 09:13 AM