MICHIGAN
Daily Tribune
By CAROL HOPKINS
carol.hopkins@oakpress.com; @opcarolhopkins
Four former St. Mary’s Orchard Lake Schools students have come forward to say they were sexually molested by a priest at the school in the 1980s — and a Boston attorney has heard the stories and is researching his next step in the matter.
The priest, Brother Stephen Baker, worked at the school in Orchard Lake between 1983-85.
Baker, 62, killed himself Jan. 26 with a self-inflicted knife wound to the heart at the St. Bernardine Monastery in Hollidaysburg, Pa. — Baker is accused of molesting high schools students in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Baker left a note apologizing for his actions, officials reported.
Prior abuse cases continue to trouble the church.
There is no record that Baker molested anyone connected with the school system, said officials with the Archdiocese of Detroit.
“He knew no bounds and was not properly being supervised,” said Mitchell Garabedian, a Boston, Mass.-based attorney who specializes in sexual abuse cases.
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