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Tribune Chronicle
January 17, 2013
By JOE GORMAN Tribune Chronicle (jgorman@tribtoday.com) , Tribune Chronicle | TribToday.com
BRACEVILLE – The lawyer representing 11 former John F. Kennedy High School students who say they were sexually abused by a baseball coach in the mid-1980s said he was first contacted more than two years ago by someone who lives in Massachusetts.
Over the course of those two years, Boston-based attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who has worked with victims of abuse by clergy for several years, found 10 more people who said they were abused at the hands of Brother Stephen P. Baker, a Franciscan brother, who was the Eagles’ baseball coach and athletic trainer when the abuse took place between 1986 and 1990. The person who contacted Garabedian in Massachusetts was one of the 11 victims.
Garabedian spoke by telephone at a news conference at the Holiday Inn Express sponsored by the Road to Recovery, an organization that helps victims of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic Church clergy and employees.
Also on hand were two of Baker’s victims, who did not want to give their names or be photographed. One of the men said he still lives in the area. The other man declined to say where he lives now.
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