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By BETH DALBEY (Patch Staff) – May 9, 2016
EASTPOINTE, MI – A priest who was banned from public ministry while serving parishes in Royal Oak and Ferndale in 2009 after allegations that he sexually abused a 16-year-old girl he was counseling in the 1970s resurfaced is again working with teens at a Catholic center in Eastpointe — for now.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit is asking the Rev. Kenneth Kaucheck to step down from his position as development director of Gianna House Pregnancy and Parenting Residence, which he co-founded a year ago with a Catholic nun, The Macomb Daily reports.
Gianna House, located in the former convent adjacent to St. Veronica Catholic Church in Eastpointe, takes in pregnant girls and women, and assists them and any children they may have.
If Kaucheck doesn’t voluntarily resign, he could be removed under canon law because his position at Gianna House “violates the restrictions placed on his ministry in 2009,” John Kohn, a spokesman for the archdiocese told the Detroit Free Press.
“We assert that he should not be allowed to continue in this position.” Kohn said.
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