MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by David Clohessy on January 31, 2013
A Catholic cleric who is accused of molesting dozens of boys and who killed himself on Saturday worked for at least four years in the Twin Cities and may have molested a Minnesota child, a newspaper has reported.
And a support group is blasting two Catholic institutions – the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese and a religious order called the Franciscans – for not disclosing the accused man’s presence here and the allegation against him.
On Jan. 26, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette disclosed that Brother Stephen P. Baker “had been banned from ministry in 2000 after his order settled a claim that he had sexually abused a minor while serving in Minnesota in the 1980s.”
Leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, believe that Baker was at St. Patrick’s church in Inver Grove Heights from 1978 to 1981. That parish has long been staffed by priests and others from the Franciscans.
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