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Altoona Mirror
July 19, 2013
By Phil Ray (pray@altoonamirror.com), The Altoona Mirror
Blair County attorney Richard M. Serbin has filed notice of a sixth lawsuit involving child sexual abuse allegations against Brother Stephen Baker, a Franciscan friar who once was an instructor and a coach at Johntown’s Bishop McCort High School.
The notice of legal action, called a praecipe, also bears the name of attorney Mitchell Garabedian of Boston, who obtained a national reputation for his fight against child sexual abuse by clergy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston.
Serbin has filed five prior notices this year on behalf of alleged victims of Baker.
He said Thursday that there are other possible victims of Baker for which notices have not been filed, but he said it was necessary to file the notice in the case this week because the statute of limitations was nearing, which would have barred legal action.
Serbin said he could not reveal details of the abuse concerning of the case, filed under the name John Doe 80, at this time.
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