All aspects of feelings about sex got messed up for me, in fact they still are. I went into drugs, drinking, increasingly anonymous and risky sexual behavior. I still have nightmares, it’s hard to express the destructive impact Baker has had on my life.
But I’m grateful that at least I am able to be here and so many others aren’t.
Baker is going to prison. It’s a symbolic victory for us. He’s only being arraigned on crimes against two victims, there are dozens of others like myself for which he’ll never be held accountable.
If a criminal case were pursued by all of us, he’d be in prison the rest of his life. But now as a 60 year old priest, going in for a few years will not be good. This is a day I’ll never forget.
MARY GRANT: 10 Years is Not Enough
I’m here to say a few words on behalf of survivors of Baker and part of a support group we all belong to. First thank you to the DA’s office for pursuing these charges.
The lives won’t be repaired, they won’t get their childhoods back.
Ten years is not enough.
Nevertheless every day he’s behind bars another day, he can’t hurt another child
Baker is not being sentenced for all his crimes, but a fraction of them. At this point with him being sentenced, the five and a half years these victims went through didn't have to happen. It didn't have to happen.
VICKI MARTIN: Baker should spend the rest of life in prison with Cardinal Mahony as his cellmate
I’m here to speak for Victim David B whose daughter went into labor this morning so he can’t be here.
Father Baker is a monster. He posed himself as a man of God and his intentions were evil. He robbed children of innocence -- in case of David D he wants the court to know this fact.
Baker forced him, in a motel room, sodomized him pushing his face into pillows to muffle David’s screams.
David wanted to scream at Baker here now in court.
People are told to forgive, but forgiveness a cheap grace when the person to be pardoned is not sorry.
But I’m grateful that at least I am able to be here and so many others aren’t.
Baker is going to prison. It’s a symbolic victory for us. He’s only being arraigned on crimes against two victims, there are dozens of others like myself for which he’ll never be held accountable.
If a criminal case were pursued by all of us, he’d be in prison the rest of his life. But now as a 60 year old priest, going in for a few years will not be good. This is a day I’ll never forget.
I’m here to say a few words on behalf of survivors of Baker and part of a support group we all belong to. First thank you to the DA’s office for pursuing these charges.
The lives won’t be repaired, they won’t get their childhoods back.
Ten years is not enough.
Nevertheless every day he’s behind bars another day, he can’t hurt another child
Baker is not being sentenced for all his crimes, but a fraction of them. At this point with him being sentenced, the five and a half years these victims went through didn't have to happen. It didn't have to happen.
VICKI MARTIN: Baker should spend the rest of life in prison with Cardinal Mahony as his cellmate
I’m here to speak for Victim David B whose daughter went into labor this morning so he can’t be here.
Father Baker is a monster. He posed himself as a man of God and his intentions were evil. He robbed children of innocence -- in case of David D he wants the court to know this fact.
Baker forced him, in a motel room, sodomized him pushing his face into pillows to muffle David’s screams.
David wanted to scream at Baker here now in court.
People are told to forgive, but forgiveness a cheap grace when the person to be pardoned is not sorry.
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