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Holy Redeemer Athletic Director John Patrick \u201cJ.P.\u201d Aquilina as pictured on Holy Redeemer\u2019s website.<\/p>\nThe athletic director of Holy Redeemer High School has been placed on administrative leave amid allegations that he has engaged in \u201cinappropriate conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n
A statement from Holy Redeemer Principal Colin Martinson notified parents and guardians that the school\u2019s athletic director, John Patrick Aquilina, had been placed on leave effective Monday. The statement contained no details about the cause of the decision to place Aquilina on leave and Martinson asked parents and guardians to direct all questions about sports, scheduling, and transportation to him.<\/p>\n
Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce and Wilkes-Barre Police Chief Michael Boyle confirmed in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon that they had received complaints alleging Aquilina had engaged in \u201cinappropriate conduct.\u201d They stated that detectives from the police department and district attorney\u2019s office were investigating the allegations with assistance from the FBI.<\/p>\n
The statement cautioned that the investigation remained in its \u201cvery early stages\u201d and that \u201cofficials have not confirmed the allegations.\u201d It pledged to make more information available to the public as the investigation progresses.<\/p>\n
Holy Redeemer Athletic Director John Patrick \u201cJ.P.\u201d Aquilina as pictured on Holy Redeemer\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Eric Deabill, a spokesperson for the Diocese of Scranton, referred to Martinson\u2019s statement when contacted. He declined further comment, citing a policy against discussing personnel matters.<\/p>\n
When asked in a follow-up request for comment whether the diocese would cooperate with law enforcement, Deabill wrote that the diocese has a policy to \u201calways cooperate fully with all civil investigations\u201d and later indicated the diocese had the same cooperation policy toward criminal investigations.<\/p>\n
An hour and 16 minutes after sending an initial request for comment to Aquilina\u2019s email address and 30 minutes after it sent a follow-up request, The Citizens\u2019 Voice received an automated email from Aquilina indicating he was out of the office and unable to respond to messages. The message said to contact Holy Redeemer.<\/p>\n
Holy Redeemer Main Office did not immediately respond to request for comment.<\/p>\n
Aquilina did not immediately respond to calls made to a phone number that he has previously used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The athletic director of Holy Redeemer High School has been placed on administrative leave amid allegations that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,227,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,181,2685],"class_list":["post-316797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-education","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt","tag-wilkes-barre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}