VIRGINIA
The Virginian-Pilot
By Bill Sizemore
The Virginian-Pilot
March 4, 2013
NORFOLK
A Roman Catholic friar who killed himself in Pennsylvania a month ago amid allegations that he molested dozens of schoolboys for decades was on the faculty at a parochial school in Norfolk in the 1970s.
Now an organization of clergy abuse victims wants to know whether he molested students then.
Brother Stephen Baker, 62, stabbed himself in the heart at a monastery in central Pennsylvania on Jan. 26, days after it was disclosed that 11 of his accusers in Ohio received financial settlements. Since that disclosure, attorneys say, more than 50 additional accusers have come forward.
Baker, a member of the Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular, was on the faculty at James Barry Robinson High School, a Catholic boys boarding school in Norfolk, early in his career. The facility closed as a school in 1977 and is now a treatment center for emotionally disturbed children.
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