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16 April 2016

Lawyers argue that statute of limitations has expired in priest sex-abuse case

The day began with a 30-year-old witness describing how Franciscan Brother Stephen Baker befriended him and his family and repeatedly molested him from his early teens.
But even as prosecutors laid out their case involving the late friar's molestation of as many as 100 youths at Bishop McCort Catholic High School in Johnstown and elsewhere, the attorneys for three of his former superiors launched a vigorous defense at a preliminary hearing here Thursday.

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2016/04/14/Former-student-testifies-about-Franciscans-in-Altoona-abuse-case/stories/201604140166