TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A former Ohio school superintendent has been sentenced to one year in jail after earlier pleading guilty to a sexual conduct charge in Michigan involving a former student decades ago.
A judge in Michigan’s Lenawee (lehn-uh-WAY’) County on Thursday also ordered Patrick Hickey to spend five years on probation.
Hickey said before the sentenced was handed down that he had been sexually abused by a relative and that he has gotten help and hasn’t victimized anyone else.
His plea deal required him to acknowledge to groping a teenager.
Hickey resigned in March from the Washington Local Schools board in Toledo after being charged.
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.
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