Ugliness Persists for Church

By Michael Fitzgerald
Record
January 15, 2014

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For years, I have wanted to forgive the Roman Catholic Church. Then yet another sex scandal comes to light, and I want to kick the cathedral over.

The Diocese of Stockton's bankruptcy filing this week eclipsed the news that Father Michael Kelly was indicted.

A criminal grand jury in Calaveras County charged Kelly with three counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child and one count of oral copulation with a child.

The indictment alleges Kelly began committing these sex crimes when the victim was 10 years old.

This is where I usually say innocent until proven guilty. But Kelly was already a defendant in a civil trial. A former altar boy claimed the good father raped him.

In midtrial, Kelly fled to Ireland.

So you're presumed innocent, unless you go on the lam. Then you're just another lousy fugitive.