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''Open and transparent' - that's what Catholic bishops are required to be in child sex cases, according to the official U.S. 'Youngstown Catholic officials kept silent for more than three years about multiple credible child sex accusations against a Catholic school teacher. Judy Jones, who serves as Midwest Assistant Midwest Director of the advocacy group SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, released the following statement:

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(NOTE: To read the full story, click HERE.) Franciscan officials told WKBN that Baker was removed from all public ministry and has been living under strict supervision in which he has no contact with minors. 'I'll have to ask my superiors if I can say anything.' Baker then immediately hung up. 'I'm flabbergasted,' Baker told the TV station. Bernadine's monastery in Newry, Pa., he said he was shocked when informed about the accusations.

When WKBN reporters reached Baker by phone Wednesday in his room at St. Franciscan religious order based in Pennsylvania. Settlements were reached with JFK High School, the Youngstown Diocese and with T.O.R. Baker, a baseball coach, religion teacher and athletic trainer during his tenure at JFK, had molested them.

That's the information provided by a source familiar with the settlements reached in the cases Wednesday, as reported today by WKBN TV-27's website.īoston attorney Mitchell Garabedian told the TV station that he negotiated settlements for 11 men who attended JFK High from 1986 to 1990 that claimed Brother Stephen P. Kennedy High School religion teacher, sports trainer and baseball coach used his authority positions to tell students they needed massages to avoid injury, then sexually molested them, one as many as 25 times during the late 1980s. Catholic School Coach, Teacher Sexually Abused As Many As 25 Students, Norwalk Reflector, Ĭatholic School Coach, Teacher Sexually Abused As Many As 25 StudentsĪ former Warren John F.