MICHIGAN
My Fox Detroit
By Jeff Kranitz, Assignment Editor
Orchard Lake, Mich. (WJBK) –
Two local men have added their names to a long list of alleged victims claiming abuse by a Franciscan friar who recently committed suicide.
Bishop Stephen Baker was at the center of an interstate abuse scandal involving more than 60 complainants, before he took his own life in Pennsylvania last month.
Baker, who was a teacher at St. Mary’s Preparatory in Orchard Lake from 1983-85, was found dead of reported self-inflicted stab wounds to the chest last month.
His suicide came less than two weeks after a legal settlement by 11 men who said Baker sexually abused them in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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