Posts Tagged ‘child abuse’

THE MICHAEL BAKER TIMELINE: A FEW DETAILS

December 6, 2007

On Monday, when Will Swaim and I first wrote about admitted child molester Michael Baker and his plea deal, we knew relatively little about his personal history: simply that he had done terrible things, that some of those things had taken place in Long Beach, and that church officials had allowed him to [...]

OK, SO MAYBE BAKER’S 10-YEAR SENTENCE DOESN’T MEAN WHAT WE THINK IT MEANS

December 4, 2007

Just to get some sense of how it balances out…

As reported by Will Swaim, defrocked priest Michael Stephen Baker accepted a plea deal on Monday, exchanging the grudging acknowledgment of his abuse of two boys for a prison sentence of ten years and a $20k payout to one of the victims.
We’ve all grown accustomed to [...]

 

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