OHIO
WKBN
By Molly Reed
Published: March 6, 2016
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Road to Recovery, a group that represented and advocated for alleged victims of sexual abuse by a former Warren JFK baseball coach, was back in Youngstown on Sunday calling for an investigation.
The group wants Mahoning and Trumbull County prosecutors to request the state attorney general’s office launch an investigation of the Youngstown Diocese.
“We want a group of law enforcement officials to raid off that building, and to take out the files just the way they did in Pennsylvania,” said President Robert Hoatson.
The grand jury report in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese in Pennsylvania said the Diocese helped cover up the sexual abuse of hundreds of children.
In 2013, the Youngstown Diocese announced abuse settlements with 11 former students of Brother Stephen Baker while he was on staff at Warren JFK in the late ’80s. Students came forward years later, claiming they were also abused by Baker.
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