BALTIMORE (MD)
The Baltimore Sun
By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun
10:26 p.m. EDT, June 6, 2012
Baltimore prosecutors are scheduled to meet Thursday with a woman to discuss further allegations of sexual abuse against John Merzbacher, a former teacher at the Catholic Community middle school in South Baltimore.
It appears to be the first time that such allegations have been raised with prosecutors since the 1990s, when Merzbacher was charged with dozens of counts of child sexual abuse from his teaching days 20 years earlier. He was convicted in 1995 in his first of what were to be 14 trials and is now involved in an appeals court proceeding that some fear could lead to his early release from prison.
“I want my day in court,” said Donna Berger, now 48.
Merzbacher’s attorney in the appeals case, H. Mark Stichel, declined to comment, saying that a new criminal case against his client would be “beyond [the] scope” of his representation. Merzbacher has not been charged with a crime related to Berger’s allegations.
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