PENNSYLVANIA
WJAC
Updated: Friday, October 11 2013
BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. — The bishop of the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese has responded to a judge’s call for lawsuits to be filed in a child sex abuse case involving a Franciscan friar.
Last week, a Blair County judge called on Altoona lawyer Richard Serbin to file complaints in the Brother Stephen Baker case within 30 days. Baker was a Franciscan friar and a former athletic trainer at Bishop McCort High School.
The subject of child abuse investigations in Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, Baker lived at St. Bernadine Monastery in Hollidaysburg when he committed suicide on Jan. 26.
Earlier this year, Serbin filed notices of pending lawsuits in at least seven cases of suspected child abuse involving Baker. But it’s been more than 120 days, and still no formal lawsuits have filed.
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