STOCKTON (CA)
The Record
By Jennie Rodriguez-Moore
Record Staff Writer
March 23, 2012
STOCKTON – A psychiatrist for the defense in the civil trial of a local Catholic priest says sex abuse memories of a former altar boy who accuses Rev. Michael Kelly are false.
The plaintiff, now a 37-year-old man, said Kelly assaulted him over a period of time in the mid-1980s.
Defense attorneys for Kelly and the Diocese of Stockton are challenging the validity of the man’s recovered memories.
Dr. J. Alexander Bodkin, an associate professor of psychology at Harvard University and member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, testified Thursday as the defense’s expert witness.
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