Lockeford priest remains steadfast in his rejection of sex assault allegations

STOCKTON (CA)
The Modesto Bee

By Ross Farrow
News-Sentinel (Lodi)

STOCKTON — Father Michael Kelly continued to deny allegations that he sexually assaulted anyone while spending almost two more hours on the witness stand Wednesday.

Attorney John Manly represents a 37-year-old man suing Kelly on allegations that the Lockeford priest sexually assaulted him when the plaintiff was an altar boy in the 1980s.

Manly named several people from the 1970s and ’80s, asking Kelly if he had touched any of them on or near the groin.

Kelly, testifying for a second day, vehemently denied that he touched anyone inappropriately.

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