A 32-year-old man filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Cardinal Roger Mahony and an ex-priest who was returned to parish duties even after admitting to molesting more than 20 children.\r\nMahony went on to reassign Michael Baker to nine other parishes, where he victimized other children.
A 32-year-old man filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony and an ex-priest who was returned to parish duties even after admitting to molesting children.
Baker has been accused of molesting at least 23 men as young boys during his decades in the priesthood. He was convicted in 2007 of abusing two boys and sentenced to 10 years in prison.Wednesday’s lawsuit was filed by a man identified only as John Doe, who alleges he was repeatedly sexually abused from about age 6 to 10, between 1993 and 1997, at St. Columbkille Church in South Los Angeles. Baker had confided to Mahony in 1986 that he had molested two boys.
The new state legislation is expected to renew mass litigation against the Catholic Church and other institutions with knowledge of abusers’ histories.
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