PENNSYLVANIA
TribLive
By The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Three more former students at a Catholic school have settled sexual abuse suits involving a Franciscan friar who worked there nearly 20 years ago, their attorney said.
Boston attorney Michael Garabedian said each of the cases settled for $50,000, or a total of $150,000, the (Johnstown) Tribune-Democrat ( http://bit.ly/1FK9zVv ) reported Wednesday.
In October, Garabedian and other attorneys announced an $8 million settlement on behalf of 88 former Bishop McCort High School students alleging abuse by Brother Stephen Baker, who committed suicide more than two years ago. Those students each received between $60,000 and slightly more than $120,000.
Since the group settlement, other former students of the school in Johnstown, some 60 miles east of Pittsburgh, have come forward to sue the Altoona-Johnstown diocese – which ran the school when Baker worked there – and others.
Diocesan spokesman Tony DeGol, declined to comment on the latest settlements saying, “As always, the diocese does not comment on matters that involve litigation.”
The latest settlements involved men who were 14 to 17 when they were abused by Baker while attending the school from 1996 to 2000, Garabedian said.
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