Felony Charges Against Ex-Priest Now Total 34
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From Times Staff Reports
Prosecutors filed five additional felony sex-abuse charges Wednesday against a former priest who could become one of the first clerics in California to be tried for sexual abuse.
Michael Stephen Baker, 55, who admitted in 1986 to Cardinal Roger M. Mahony that he had molested minors, now faces 34 felony charges after five counts of oral copulation with a minor were filed.
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