"Exonerated man’s friends to recall life cut short; Fight to prove innocence took decades" by Laura Crimaldi | Globe staff October 11, 2014
For years, Bernard F. Baran Jr. made headlines as the central figure in a controversial child molestation case in Pittsfield that landed him in prison for 21 years while he fought to prove his innocence and attracted many supporters.
Baran was ultimately released in 2006, but his freedom did not last long. The 49-year-old man died on Sept. 1, a little more than an hour after collapsing, said his niece, Crystal Squires. She said an autopsy was performed, and Baran’s family is waiting to learn his cause of death.
But on Saturday, loved ones will hold a memorial service at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, to celebrate the personal side of Baran most people never knew....
Baran, a former teacher’s aide at the Early Childhood Development Center, was one of the first people convicted in a wave of prosecutions of day-care workers in the 1980s. Many of those prosecutions were later discredited....
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