OHIO
Tribune Chronicle
January 16, 2013
WARREN — The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown said in a written statement this morning that it became aware of sex abuse allegations against Franciscan Brother Stephen P. Baker about two decades after the alleged abuse took place at Warren John F. Kennedy High School.
“Neither the diocese nor John F. Kennedy High School had any knowledge of the allegations of abuse while Brother Baker served the school,” the written statement says.
“Although the abuse is said to have occurred prior to 1991, the allegations were not reported by the former students to the school or the diocese until nearly 20 years later,” the diocese’s written statement says. The diocese said it then reported the matter to Trumbull County Children Services.
Baker sexually abused 11 JFK students as many as 25 times each, according to President Robert Hoatson of Road to Recovery, a nonprofit organization that provides emotional, psychological, financial and spiritual assistance to survivors recovering from sexual abuse by members of the clergy.
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