The Archdiocese of Detroit has placed the principal of Holy Redeemer Grade School in southwest Detroit on administrative leave after a Lathrup Village woman accused him in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting her more than two decades ago at another school, the Detroit News reports.
John Patrick Kiley went on leave Wednesday from the Detroit school, said Ned McGrath, spokesman for the archdiocese, which is named as a defendant in the suit. He said the archdiocese hasn't been served with the suit that was filed this past week.
"These are serious allegations and we intend to get to the bottom of them," McGrath told reporter Mike Martindale.
In the suit, the woman alleges Kiley coerced her into "multiple illicit and unlawful sexual acts" from May 1989 to June 1991 at her home and at St. Bede Elementary, a school in Southfield that has since closed.
