K.C. children’s theater director director dead days after resigning under sexual abuse allegation

A longtime children’s theater director in Kansas City was discovered dead at his home on Christmas Eve, just a few days after he resigned amid allegations of sexual abuse.

Jeff Church, 63, who had led the Coterie Theatre for over three decades, was found dead at his home on Saturday afternoon, the Kansas City Star reported.

The cause of death has not been released.

On Thursday, a radio talk show host accused Church on Facebook of assaulting him in 1991 when he was 27.

He came forward by sharing a since-deleted video by Deshawn Young, a Florida-based actor who previously lived in Kansas City, in which he described an assault.