PENNSYLVANIA
Tribune Chronicle
January 17, 2013
By THE ALTOONA MIRROR Special to the Tribune Chronicle (news@tribtoday.com) , Tribune Chronicle | TribToday.com
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. – For years as his alleged crimes against those students went unreported, Brother Stephen P. Baker, a Franciscan friar based in Hollidaysburg, had a presence at Altoona and Johnstown Catholic schools.
Baker’s presence among area youths includes his role on the Bishop McCort High School baseball team in Johnstown, Pa., in the late 1990s and mid-2000s. He also served in 1998 on the Confirmation Committee for the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, which developed confirmation preparation guidelines in April 1998.
Baker is a friar of the Third Order Regular based at St. Bernardine’s monastery in Hollidaysburg.
When reached about 9:45 a.m. Wednesday in his room at St. Bernardine’s, he told Tribune news partner WYTV 33 that he was shocked when told of the accusations.
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