PENNSYLVANIA
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
For a Church whose very name – Catholic – means broad, big and universal, it has become head shakingly predictable that when caught and called out in media exposure regarding sexual abuse it ducks head first in to the internal, the interior, the parochial.
The most recent case in point: the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown in Pennsylvania.
This diocese is one of a number in which the estimated dozens of victims of Franciscan friar Stephen Baker, who committed suicide on 1/26/13, have come forward.
Besides Altoona-Johnstown, Baker victims have come forward in the Diocese of Youngstown, OH as well as Orchard Lake, MI. He also was assigned in Iver Lake, MN.
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