Sex abuse by Orchard Lake friar first reported in 1985, dad of alleged victim says
A longtime Michigan resident said Tuesday that he confronted an official at Orchard Lake St. Mary's high school in 1985 about his son's alleged sexual abuse by Brother Stephen Baker, a Franciscan friar who killed himself in January after abuse incidents became public at Ohio and Pennsylvania schools.
In March 1985, the father said he confronted Baker and a St. Mary's administrator. The father said he demanded that Baker be terminated immediately.
"You are a sick man, and this is your last day at the school," the man said he told Baker. "I'll see to it."
The father spoke at a Romulus news conference Tuesday arranged by a victims advocacy group, Road to Recovery of New Jersey, and attorney Mitchell Garabedian.
Baker's name became public in January, after Garabedian successfully negotiated an out-of-court settlement for 11 men who alleged that Baker sexually molested them when he was at John F. Kennedy Catholic high school in Warren, Ohio.
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