Former Priest Michael Stephen Baker in Prison for 12 Felony Counts of Sexual Abuse on Boys
A former priest Michael Stephen Baker pleaded guilty five years ago to 12 felony counts of sexually abusing boys was arrested last month at the Resort at Pelican Hill, the OC Weekly reported.
Baker was arrested on Aug. 17 after he was discovered violating his probation while standing next to a pool where children were swimming. He's now in a county jail.
“Baker pleaded guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court in 2007 to 12 felony counts of oral copulation with a person under the age of 18 for abusing two boys he met during the 1980s,” the Weekly reported. “His original sentence was 10 years, but California justice being as skewed as it is, he was released just last year.”Corona del Mar resident and lawyer John Manly, who specializes in sexual abuse cases and has two cases against Baker that are scheduled to go to trial in November.
“I have to give credit to the parole officers who tracked him there and got him,” Manly said. “They did a good job. But there is something fundamentally wrong with our system that he could do this. He’s a really, really dangerous pedophile. The fact that he’s a mile from my house is not exactly reassuring.”This man was probably playing things close all along thinking he'd get away with it. Not!!
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