YOUNGSTOWN (OH)
WFMJ
By Michelle Nicks, Reporter
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – At a press conference Thursday, the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown apologized to the victims in a sexual abuse allegation against a former religious teacher and coach at the Warren John F. Kennedy High School.
“I am deeply sorry for the pain the victims of Brother [Stephen] Baker endured while at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren,” Bishop George Murry told news reporters. “Brother Baker betrayed the trust these young men placed in him as a spiritual leader.”
Baker was accused of sexually abusing 11 Warren JFK students more than 20 years ago, but the men just recently came forward in a lawsuit against the diocese and Third Order Regular Franciscans in Pennsylvania where Baker was a member.
The suit was settled with a monetary award for the men. The Third Order Regular Franciscans of Pennsylvania paid 70 percent of the settlement and the other 30 percent came from the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown.
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