PENNSYLVANIA
The Altoona Mirror
October 5, 2013
By Phil Ray (pray@altoonamirror.com) , The Altoona Mirror
Altoona attorney Richard Serbin, since the beginning of the year, has filed notices of pending lawsuits in seven cases of suspected child sexual abuse involving former students at Johnstown’s Bishop McCort Catholic school.
The lawsuits stem from alleged abuse at the hands of Brother Stephen Baker who served at the school as an athletic trainer in the 1990s.
Baker was a Franciscan friar who lived at St. Bernadine Monastery in Hollidaysburg when he committed suicide Jan. 26.
He was the subject of child abuse investigations in Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania.
Blair County President Judge Jolene G. Kopriva wants Serbin to file complaints in his cases, according to documents filed in the Blair County Courthouse.
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