PENNSYLVANIA
WJAC
Updated: Wednesday, November 20 2013
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — As the attorneys for the alleged victims of Brother Stephen Baker continue to form their cases and seek out who knew what and when, an organization that helps victims of sexual abuse is seeking the truth themselves.
Road to Recovery was in Johnstown Wednesday, urging alleged victims and anyone at Bishop McCort Catholic High School who knew something to come forward. Luke Bradescu was 29 years old when he took his life.
For 11 years, his family struggled to figure out why. “What was wrong?” his mother, Barbara Aponte asked through tears Wednesday.
“He seemed happy, he knew he was loved. We knew he loved us.” It wasn’t until this past January when allegations against Baker surfaced and many of Bradescu’s old high school friends in Ohio came forward, that Aponte found her answer.
“The story broke and it was like a flood of images and memories, things that seemed so insignificant just popped out,” said Aponte. “I was like, ‘Oh my God. This is it.”
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