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Criminal

Dec. 5, 2007

Former Priest Pleads Guilty to Abuse, Receives 10-Year Sentence

LOS ANGELES - A former Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to 10 years and four months in prison after pleading guilty Monday to molesting two teenage boys in the mid-1990s.

By Ryan Oliver
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - A former Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to 10 years and four months in prison after pleading guilty Monday to molesting two teenage boys in the mid-1990s.
      Michael Baker, 59, was also accused of molesting more than 20 other young victims. But those charges were dropped in 2003 after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a Cali...

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