Ex-altar boy describes abuse

STOCKTON (CA)
Stockton Record

By Jennie Rodriguez-Moore
Record Staff Writer

March 09, 2012

STOCKTON – He remembers receiving extra attention. Feeling special. Feeling favored by the Rev. Michael Kelly, a local priest then at Stockton’s Cathedral of the Annunciation.

But he also links darker memories to Kelly.

“Both of the times I remember him babysitting (me), he sexually abused me,” a 37-year-old Fairfax man, identified in court documents as John TZ Doe, said in a civil trial Thursday.

The former Annunciation altar boy is suing Kelly and the Diocese of Stockton for damages based on repressed memories of sex abuse during the 1980s he said he recovered in 2006.

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