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Tribune Chronicle
January 18, 2013
By JOE GORMAN – Staff reporter (jgorman@tribtoday.com) , Tribune Chronicle | TribToday.com
A day after it was revealed 11 men who claimed to be molested at John F. Kennedy High School in the mid-1980s reached a settlement, five other men have stepped forward to claim they were abused by the same person.
Mitchell Garabedian, a Boston-based attorney who represented the 11, said Thursday the five men came forward after news of the settlement was revealed Wednesday and two of the 11 men spoke to the media. Garabedian said another man contacted him after the settlement was revealed.
As with those 12, Garabedian said the five on Thursday claimed to have been abused by Brother Stephen Baker, a Franciscan brother who was baseball coach at the school at the time. The abuse also covered the same time period, from 1986 to 1990, Garabedian said.
He said the men contacted him either by phone or email. The number of people who now claimed to have been abused by Baker is 17.
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