STOCKTON (CA)
The Modesto Bee
By Jennie Rodriguez-Moore
The Record (Stockton)
STOCKTON — A Catholic priest accused of child sexual abuse testified in his civil trial for the first time Tuesday, fielding questions from the plaintiff’s attorney.
Rev. Michael Kelly and the Diocese of Stockton are being sued by a former altar boy who served at Cathedral of the Annunciation under Kelly’s direction during the mid-1980s.
Kelly, now pastor of St. Joachim Church in Lockeford, is accused of touching the boy as he baby-sat him, assaulting him in the priest’s rectory and at a motel and raping him in a wooded area.
“That’s what he said, and it never happened,” Kelly said on the stand.
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