PENNSYLVANIA
Tribune-Democrat
Kathy Mellott
kmellott@tribdem.com
EBENSBURG — Action in Cambria County court stopping the lawsuit filed on behalf of alleged victims of Brother Stephen Baker has no impact on the investigation underway by Cambria County District Attorney Kelly Callihan.
The decision to drop the lawsuit is a civil initiative, while the role of Callihan and her staff looking into the Baker case is a criminal matter.
In late October, Callihan confirmed that she is asking the state attorney general’s office to undertake an investigation into Baker and allegations by former students of Bishop McCort High School.
Baker, a Franciscan friar who worked at the school from 1992 to 2001, died in late January at a monastery in Blair County in what was ruled a suicide. He was 62, and his death came weeks after word of a settlement between 11 of his victims and a Catholic diocese in Ohio.
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