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STEUBENVILLE The Rev. David Morrier, TOR, under indictment for rape and sexual battery of a woman he counseled a decade ago at Franciscan University of Steubenville, had been banned from campus in 2014, university officials said Thursday.
The statement, released Thursday morning in response to a Herald-Star story detailing Morrier’s indictment, did not explain why the university removed him or when administrators were made aware of the allegations against him.
It did, however, note that FUS “has cooperated and will continue to cooperate fully” with authorities investigating the alleged sexual misconduct.
Morrier, 59, was indicted Wednesday by a county grand jury on one count of rape and two counts of sexual battery of a female patient dating from November 2010 to the spring of 2013.
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Guard historian selected for national scholar-in-residence program
The U.S. Army Center of Military History has selected Maine’s Capt. Jonathan Bratten as its first Scholar in Residence.
A published author, Bratten will spend his first year as a guest faculty member at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., followed by a second year at the Army’s Center of Military History in Washington, D.C., to develop educational history tours, known in the military as staff rides. Staff rides are an official training event prescribed in Army regulations, and are useful tools for studying the conditions and events of historic battles as a means of learning the application of both military doctrine and tactics. He will teach freshmen about the Army profession and core values during the first semester and will teach sophomores an overall survey of military history in the second semester.
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SPECIAL MEETING, SPECIAL MEMORIES â Twenty years after her birth, âMiracle Babyâ Abbigael âAbbyâ Balzano, seated center, looks at a scrapbook of photos taken after her birth in 2000. With her are her mother, Rachel Balzano, seated left. During a routine prenatal doctorâs visit, Rachelâs water broke and a prolapsed umbilical cord emergency situation put a team of health care professionals at then Trinity East into action to have Abby delivered through a Cesarean section. Retired registered OB nurse Pam Welsh, seated right, was one of those team members who had always wondered what happened to Abby, a question answered when longtime friend and fellow nurse Becky Salvino, standing, connected with Abby, a nursing student at the Franciscan University of Steubenville where Salvino is one of her instructors. The four gathered at Franciscan in March for a first-time meeting where they refrained from mask-wearing for the photo.
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