VIRGINIA
The Virginian-Pilot
JOHNSTOWN, Pa.
A friar accused of molesting more than 100 children in Pennsylvania lived and worked in Norfolk in the 1970s on assignment at Holy Trinity Catholic Church while living at the James Barry Robinson Home for Boys, now known as The Barry Robinson Center.
Brother Stephen Baker, the friar at the center of the abuse allegations, killed himself in 2013 — with two knives to the heart — after church officials in Youngstown, Ohio, announced they were settling lawsuits by 11 former students who said Baker abused them at schools in Ohio from 1986 to 1990.
The case ongoing in Pennsylvania involves three ex-leaders of a Franciscan religious order who were charged Tuesday with allowing Baker to take on jobs, including a position as a high school athletic trainer, that enabled him to molest more than 100 children.
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