Franciscan Brother Who Sexually Abused Boy in Inver Grove Heights Commits Suicide
The victim, who was abused by Brother Stephen Baker in the 1970s at St. Patrick’s Church, came forward with details after the friar killed himself on Jan. 26 in a Pennsylvania monastery.
A Franciscan brother who committed suicide on Jan. 26 in the midst of wide-ranging sexual abuse allegations also abused a Minnesotan boy while he was teaching catechism in the 1970s at St. Patrick’s Church in Inver Grove Heights. Brother Stephen Baker, 62, was found dead in a Hollidaysburg, Penn., monastery as a result of a self-inflicted knife wound to the heart, the Associated Press reported. Douglas Larson, 49, of St. Cloud, Minn., told a Youngstown, Ohio, television station that he felt closure when he heard about the suicide and that he felt his name should be public because he had done nothing wrong. “This is a chapter in my book that is closed,” Larson told WKBN-TV. “He can’t do anything to me or anybody else.” Larson told the …
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7:37 am on Friday, February 8, 2013
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