PENNSYLVANIA
WJAC
BY SARA SMALL TUESDAY, MARCH 15TH 2016
JOHNSTOWN — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is crediting one man for speaking up for victims of child sexual abuse by priests.
Kane thanked George Foster Tuesday morning during a press conference where she announced the filing of criminal charges against three Franciscan Friars for their role in the Brother Stephen Baker case.
Kane says the brothers made it possible for Baker to sexually abuse hundreds of children. It was the investigation of Baker’s actions at Bishop McCort High School in Johnstown that led to the grand jury report detailing decades of abuse within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown.
The Attorney General spoke about Foster’s actions to root out child sex abuse within the Diocese.
Foster is well known to the press in the Johnstown area for researching and investigating child sex abuse by priests. He started being a victim’s advocate and did something Kane says should be seen as an example; he spoke up and gave the victims a voice.
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