Mccort Board Intends to Sue Attorney over Unfounded Claim

By Maria Miller
WJAC
February 22, 2014

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There are new developments in the case involving a former Franciscan friar accused of sexually assaulting students at Bishop McCort Catholic High School in the early '90s.

On Friday, the Bishop McCort board of trusteesannounced its intent to file suit against a Greensburg attorney representing alleged victims in the case, saying she might be withholding vital information to its investigation.

The board said Attorney Susan Williams is making unsubstantiated and even slanderous claims on her website.

The board memberssaid if she really has knowledge of adults at the school, former or current, who knew anything about alleged abuse, they want and need to know in order to protect current students.

The statement on Williams' website is hard to miss. It's one of the first things you see on her home page and reads in part, "our office has been contacted by numerous individuals who were affected by the alleged actions of Brother Stephen Baker and the array of adults at Bishop McCort High School."

The statement has been there since early last year, when she started representing former students. But the Bishop McCort board says her claim is unsubstantiated.