MICHIGAN
Detroit Free Press
Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press May 19, 2016
A Catholic priest who was removed in 2009 from churches after allegations he abused a teenage girl has resigned from a center for pregnant teens in Eastpointe that he co-founded, Catholic officials said this week.
Fr. Kenneth Kaucheck, 69, was the co-founder, development director and a board member of Gianna House, a new Catholic center to help teenage 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 are now 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 co-founded the center along with Sister Mary Diane Masson, executive director at the House, and that he selected the board along with Masson.
Now the website says Masson alone had selected the board and is a co-founder.
The center has also selected a new board, with Dr. Robert Welch, formerly the board’s chairman, no longer on the board.
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