Update - A little story about Jerry Baker -
First off -
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/westland-father-has-strong-words-for-accused-sexual-predatorSecondly - I know some of these people. He did it. He had dozens of hours of recordings of his actions. I know this for a fact.
He didn't apparently have sex with these ones. He was feeling them up and masturbating while they slept and would book it out of the room if they woke up I guess. He had a camera running during these events.
Jerry and I and two other dudes (Tim and Chris) were a foursome of friends. Jerry and I were fucking tight.
There was a deal made when I went into Jr. High between his mother and my father. I was living with my dad in another nearby town but wanted to stay at my school. So we used my sister's address and my dad would drive me over to the Baker's house at 6am every day and I rode the bus with him.
He and I skipped about 1/3 of the 9th grade because his mom would call in for us. We'd walk up to the video store and rent three or four movies and watch them, then walk up to the school around 5th hour and hit a couple classes.
He was fixated as all fuck on sex. Was a total fucking pussy hound. I mean CONSTANTLY talking about it. He was like a less vulgar version of Jason Mewes's character from Kevin Smith's movies. I'm not exaggerating.
Like this, all the time -
The Clit CommanderBut he was fun in a distant way (You could never have a
real conversation with him about anything important.) and girls liked him. Like I said, he was an unrepentant pussy hound.
Around the beginning of high school he stopped hanging out with me. Just sorta ditched out on me and Chris. Tim remained a friend to us both so there was overlap but he was doing his best to make a clique jump over to the cool kids and left behind better friends.
His mother was pretty fucked up. She swung between crazy religious and just plain crazy a few times during my time as his friend. She stole and burned a bunch of Tim's D&D books, and was inappropriately friendly (Just friendly, nothing sexual that I was aware of) with Jerry's friends. She acted more like an older sister than a mom. There was something weird there but nothing concrete.
We hung out a few times after high school and it seemed like his goal in life was to be monumentally destroyed on drugs and alcohol at all times. The last time I saw him in person was 1995 or so.
I have no doubt that he suffered from abuse himself. That's pretty much all I know.
SHORT ANSWER- He was weird but weird in that charismatic sociopath way that is disconcerting but not alarming. My surprise that he was touching kids is prolly a 6 out of 10. Of course I was so damaged at the time that my weird meter may not have registered strong signals. S'hard to say. I would have pegged him for cokehead material or general alcoholism first. (He did turn out to be a massive drunkard FWIW)
Old pic from high school- (I've posted it before)

He's the one with no shirt on behind the girl in the white shirt. That girl, Angie, died last Friday to unrelated shit. (Blood clot in brain) She was still his best friend. I really am kinda glad in a morbid way that she missed the deets of these charges against him.