TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A former Ohio school superintendent and school board member has pleaded guilty to a sexual conduct charge in Michigan involving a former student from decades ago.
Patrick Hickey pleaded guilty Wednesday in Michigan’s Lenawee (lehn-uh-WAY’) County and faces up to two years in prison.
His plea deal required him to acknowledge in court to groping a 15-year-old girl and to register as a sex offender.
Hickey resigned in March from the Washington Local Schools board in Toledo after being charged.
A police report from 2016 says a woman told investigators she had sex with Hickey during the late 1980s when she was 14 and he was a teacher in Addison, Michigan.
Authorities say she didn’t want to pursue charges, but they reopened the investigation after she changed her mind.
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