YOUNGSTOWN (OH)
Youngstown Vindicator
By Ashley Luthern
aluthern@vindy.com
YOUNGSTOWN
For the third time in almost three years, the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown is pledging transparency and again reassuring the public that it is “taking every possible action” to protect children from sexual abuse.
For the third time in almost as many years, the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown is pledging transparency and again reassuring the public that it is “taking every possible action” to protect children from sexual abuse.
But those promises are increasingly being met with skepticism from victim advocates, such as the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).
Bishop George V. Murry had a Thursday news conference to address recent reports that 11 men settled out of court as a result of sexual abuse perpetrated by Franciscan Brother Stephen P. Baker, who worked at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren from 1986 to 1991 but was never a member of the clergy.
He is a member of the Franciscan Third Order Regular, and victims said the abuse most often occurred in an athletic training room where Brother Baker would find excuses to massage athletes and would sometimes massage their genitals.
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