BALTIMORE (MD)
Baltimore Sun
By Liz F. Kay
Sun Staff
Originally published September 7, 2005
A lay teacher at Catholic schools in Baltimore and Howard counties who died last week has been accused of sexually abusing a girl, Archdiocese Of Baltimore officials said yesterday.
Stephen E. Brotzman, who taught at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Towson last year and at St. Louis School in Clarksville for the previous five years, also is accused of sending "inappropriate" e-mail to another girl, said Sean Caine, director of communications for the archdiocese.
Brotzman, 37, of Abingdon, died Aug. 31.
The archdiocese was investigating allegations about e-mail before Brotzman's death, Caine said. Then parents of another girl reported Thursday that she had been molested, Caine said.
He confirmed both girls were of middle school or early high school age but did not release other information about them, including the schools they attended, noting privacy concerns.