PENNSYLVANIA
Daily American
Bishop McCort Catholic High School has hired a Pittsburgh-based law firm to investigate allegations of sexual abuse involving Brother Stephen Baker, who taught at the school in the late 1990s.
The non-diocesan members the school’s board of trustees became aware of the allegations late last week, according to a press release. At the time of Baker’s tenure with Bishop McCort, the school was a part of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. It has since undergone privatization.
After learning of the allegations, the board ordered a voluntary internal review and investigation, hiring Kathleen A. Gallagher and Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott to conduct the investigation.
Gallagher is a former prosecutor with the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. The school said she has prosecuted numerous sexual assault cases and thus “brings a unique understanding of both the law and unique circumstances surrounding such cases.”
A settlement was reached with 11 people Baker allegedly victimized while at John F. Kennedy Catholic School in Warren, Ohio, from 1986 to 1990.
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