STOCKTON (CA)
KCRA
STOCKTON, Calif. (KCRA) — A priest in a middle of a civil suit in an alleged molestation of a boy in the 1980, has fled the country, the Diocese of Stockton said Monday.
“This afternoon, I was stunned to receive a letter from Fr. Michael Kelly informing me he had returned to Ireland,” Stephen E. Blaire of the diocese said in news release.
In the letter, Kelley told Blaire that by the time he read the letter, he’d be with his family in Ireland.
“I am sorry for any difficulty this may cause the Diocese, but my health can’t take it anymore,” Kelly wrote in the letter, according to the diocese.
“I was stunned … ”
– Stephen E. Blaire
“I have sat back and listened to the vicious false allegations that have been spread about me for the past 4½ years, and my health has suffered greatly because of it,” he wrote.
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