PENNSYLVANIA
WJAC
[with video]
BY MARIA MILLER TUESDAY, MARCH 15TH 2016
JOHNSTOWN — Inside Pitt-Johnstown’s Heritage Hall Tuesday morning, Pennsylvania’s attorney general announced criminal charges in a two-year investigation at Bishop McCort Catholic High School. At the same time, a man who’s been fighting for justice for years for the alleged victims in the case stood outside.
“We have said from the very beginning that all these people wanted was healing,” said Robert Hoatson.
Hoatson is the founder of “Road to Recovery,” an organization that helps victims of sexual abuse. It’s also an organization that’s dealt specifically with alleged victims of Brother Stephen Baker for years.
“Finally, finally. I wanted to hug Attorney General Kane,” Hoatson said. “But at the same time my goosebumps were there thinking of the families in Johnstown who for years have been just living with this nightmare.”
Allegations against Baker first surfaced from nearly a dozen young boys taught or trained by Baker in the ’80s at a school in Ohio. That’s when Hoatson first became involved.
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