Protect vulnerable young girls from sexually abusive priest
- by: Care2 Team
- recipient: Board of Directors, Gianna House
A teen pregnancy center in Michigan has appointed a Catholic priest who sexually abused a 16-yr-old girl as their director. Rev. Kenneth Kaucheck was investigated and removed from public ministry in 2009 as a result of his crime. And now he has direct access to vulnerable young women in his new role at Gianna House. Scared and resourceless girls will turn to this sexually deviant clergy if we don't insist that Gianna House removes him immediately.
It's horrifying that the board members at Gianna House would find it appropriate to let this man be involved with teen girls. Two separate victim-of-Catholic-Priest advocate organizations have spoken out about this appointment. Gianna House is currently being remodeled so that 15 young girls can live there, all of whom Kaucheck would have regular access to. It is unconscionable that a supposed center for respite for young women would allow someone like this to have access to the girls.
The Chairman of the Board, Dr. Welch was alerted to Rev. Kaucheck's behavior over three weeks ago and has done nothing to remove him from his position since. Other members of the board already knew about the abuse and were still willing to give Kaucheck unfettered access to frightened women in the age range of his sexual preference.
If enough of us call for his removal, the Board of Directors at Gianna House will have to listen. Sign this petition to demand Rev. Kaucheck be removed from his position as Director of the Gianna House immediately.A teen pregnancy center in Michigan has appointed a Catholic priest who sexually abused a 16-yr-old girl as their director. Rev. Kenneth Kaucheck was investigated and removed from public ministry in 2009 as a result of his crime. And now he has direct access to vulnerable young women in his new role at Gianna House. Scared and resourceless girls will turn to this sexually deviant clergy if we don't insist that Gianna House removes him immediately.
It's horrifying that the board members at Gianna House would find it appropriate to let this man be involved with teen girls. Two separate victim-of-Catholic-Priest advocate organizations have spoken out about this appointment. Gianna House is currently being remodeled so that 15 young girls can live there, all of whom Kaucheck would have regular access to. It is unconscionable that a supposed center for respite for young women would allow someone like this to have access to the girls.
The Chairman of the Board, Dr. Welch was alerted to Rev. Kaucheck's behavior over three weeks ago and has done nothing to remove him from his position since. Other members of the board already knew about the abuse and were still willing to give Kaucheck unfettered access to frightened women in the age range of his sexual preference.
We demand thatRev. Kaucheck be removed from his position as Director of the Gianna House immediately.