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Philadelphia Daily News
JULIE SHAW, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER SHAWJ@PHILLYNEWS.COM, 215-854-2592
POSTED: Sunday, December 22, 2013
ARTHUR BASELICE Jr. is a lost soul, a man destroyed by the Catholic Church.
His son, Arthur Baselice III, died at age 28 of a drug overdose, and the father has blamed Charles Newman, the Franciscan friar and former president of Archbishop Ryan High School, for his death.
Newman was convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the school and his religious order. He was sentenced in May 2009 to three to six years in state prison, followed by 10 years’ probation.
On Monday, he is scheduled to be released on parole and sent to the Self-Help Movement community correction center – a halfway house – on Southampton Road in the Far Northeast, according to a letter by the Office of the Victim Advocate, provided to the Daily News by Baselice Jr.
The fact that Newman could soon be free to walk the streets outrages Baselice Jr.
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