CALIFORNIA
Modesto Bee
By Sue Nowicki
snowicki@modbee.com
The Rev. Michael Kelly’s trial in a civil lawsuit over complaints of sexually abusing a boy in the mid-1980s will open today in the San Joaquin County Courthouse in Stockton.
Kelly, pastor of St. Joachim in Lockeford, was accused by a man who is now in his late 30s of molesting him in his family’s Stockton home in 1984-86. John Manly, a Southern California attorney who specializes in such cases, is representing the plaintiff. He previously described his client as a “young father, an officer in the military, someone that you’d be proud to have live next door to you.”
Manly said the lawsuit comes as a result of “repressed memories” that were recalled in 2006.
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