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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. —
6 News learned late Thursday afternoon that several former athletes who attended Bishop McCort High School in the late 1990s have reached out to a local attorney after a Franciscan brother was accused of having inappropriate contact with minors in Ohio a decade before.
“One of our concerns in the case and one of the issues with respect to this situation is what was known to Brother Baker before he ended up at the diocese here in Johnstown,” said attorney Michael Parrish.
Brother Stephen Baker has been accused of abusing 11young boys in Ohio. Now grown men, they said they recently reached settlements in civil court.
The Johnstown-Altoona Diocese said late Thursday that it received its first report of local allegations against Baker in November 2011.
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