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By WJAC Web Staff and The Associated Press
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. —
A Franciscan brother who is accused of sexually abusing 11 students at an Ohio high school in the 1980s previously coached a Johnstown high school baseball team.
6 News has learned that Brother Stephen Baker, who now lives in Blair County, was a trainer with the Bishop McCort High School baseball team in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Prior to his time in Johnstown, Baker was accused of molesting boys at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, Ohio, from 1986-90. Baker was also a baseball coach and trainer at the Ohio school. Two of the alleged victims from Warren told an Ohio television station that the sexual abuse would happen after practice in the Warren high school’s training room.
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