PENNSYLVANIA
The Republic
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 18, 2013
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — A Franciscan friar named in legal settlements with 11 men who say he sexually abused them at a Catholic high school in northeast Ohio three decades was also the subject of complaints he abused boys at a Pennsylvania school in the late 1990s, church officials said.
The undisclosed financial settlements announced Wednesday in Ohio involved Brother Stephen Baker’s contact with students at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, Ohio from 1986-90.
Ohio Attorney Mitchell Garabedian said the cases there were resolved without criminal charges or lawsuits because of concerns with the statute of limitations.
The settlements were reached after talks involving the school, Third Order Regular Franciscans and Youngstown Catholic Diocese, which said it was unaware of the allegations until nearly 20 years after the alleged abuse.
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