PENNSYLVANIA
The Altoona Mirror
January 26, 2013
By Russ O’Reilly (roreilly@altoonamirror.com) , The Altoona Mirror
Despite an allegation of child abuse in 2000, which his current superior said resulted in Hollidaysburg-based Brother Stephen Baker’s removal from public ministry at Bishop McCort High School, the friar had a continued presence at the Johnstown school through the late 2000s, sources said.
A Bishop McCort alumnus told the Mirror that Baker spent time around the school’s football team as an athletic trainer/equipment manager in 2001.
He said Baker arranged for the team’s water boys, eighth-graders, to have their own suite and meal passes during Bishop McCort football camp at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in fall 2001.
“He made it possible for five or six other eighth-graders to actually stay overnight at camp as water boys,”?he said.
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