OHIO
Tribune Chronicle
February 4, 2013
AUSTINTOWN – A former Warren John F. Kennedy High School employee plans to discuss her son’s suicide and the matter of Brother Stephen Baker at a news conference here today.
“She is coming out now because she wants to reach others who have had the same experiences,” victim advocate Dr. Robert Hoatson said late Sunday about the 11 a.m. event at the Fairfield Inn on state Route 46. “She has not decided whether she will file suit. She may announce her intention.”
It was not clear when her son took his own life or who may be sued.
Allegations about Baker surfaced in a similar news conference on Jan. 16 in Braceville in which Michael Munno, of Cortland, and an unnamed man announced they had been sexually abused by the Franciscan friar while they were students at JFK in the mid-1980s. It was also announced at that time that the two men were among nine others who had reached a financial settlement with the Youngstown diocese and the Third Order Regular Franciscans over the allegations.
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