PENNSYLVANIA
Indiana Gazette
HOLLIDAYSBURG (AP) — A judge has scheduled a settlement conference for civil claims by people who say a Franciscan friar molested them when he was an athletic trainer at a Johnstown Catholic high school from 1992 to 2001.
The Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown has said it may sell its bishop’s residence to raise money to settle the cases involving Brother Stephen Baker.
Baker committed suicide in January 2013 after abuse settlements with an Ohio diocese where he formerly worked were publicized.
That has prompted dozens of former students at Bishop McCort High School to come forward with similar allegations.
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