California Detective Solves Decade-Old Abuse Case
Updated: December 11th, 2007
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Det. Mario Loffredo spent six months looking for a boy who didn’t exist – and found him.
As one of the detectives investigating former Roman Catholic priest and pedophile Michael Stephen Baker, Loffredo was told to find a potential molestation victim named in an internal church document.
The document, which the archdiocese was forced to turn over after a long court battle, was in Baker’s personnel file and showed that church officials had looked into – and dismissed – an allegation that the priest had a boy in his room at a South Los Angeles parish church in 1996.
