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Diocese spokesman: Attorney general’s office executes search warrant at Altoona-Johnstown administrative offices
Posted: Saturday, August 8, 2015
By Dave Sutor
dsutor@tribdem.com
HOLLIDAYSBURG – The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office executed a search warrant on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona–Johnstown on Friday.
Officials from the AG’s office would neither confirm nor deny the information.
However, diocese spokesperson Tony DeGol wrote in an email: “On Friday, agents from the state attorney general’s office came to the central offices of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown to execute a search warrant. The Diocese cannot offer further comment at this time.”
The reason for the warrant execution was not known as of Saturday morning.
But it has been reported Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s office is conducting an investigation into Brother Stephen Baker, who was accused of sexually abusing male students at what was then known as Bishop McCort High School. Baker served as an athletic trainer at the school from 1992 through 2001.
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