PENNSYLVANIA
WJAC
BY ABBEY WAY TUESDAY, MARCH 15TH 2016
Attorney General Kathleen Kane said Tuesday she will announce at her 10:30 news conference criminal charges stemming from the Office of Attorney General’s investigation of the Blair-County based Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regulars, Province of the Immaculate Conception.
Kane’s office seized documents from the order last summer.
Brother Stephen Baker, a former athletic trainer at Bishop McCort High School in Johnstown, committed suicide at the monastery in January 2013.
That happened days after Youngstown, Ohio, church officials settled lawsuits filed by 11 students who claimed Baker molested them in the late 1980s.
That prompted more than 90 former students at Bishop McCort High School in Johnstown to settle abuse claims against Baker for more than $8 million.
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