STOCKTON (CA)
Lodi News-Sentinel
Posted: Friday, April 6, 2012
By Ross Farrow/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
The case of a 37-year-old former altar boy who is accusing a Lockeford priest of sexually assaulting him is now in the jury’s hands.
The 10-woman, two-man jury was scheduled to began deliberations after lunch Friday and will continue until it reaches a verdict.
The trial, which began Feb. 29, centers around a 37-year-old Fairfax man who sued Father Michael Kelly for allegedly sexually assaulting him when the plaintiff was an altar boy in the mid-1980s at the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Stockton.
Kelly, pastor of St. Joachim’s Catholic Church in Lockeford since 2004, has not been criminally charged. The statute of limitations for criminal complaints had expired by the time the plaintiff told his father about the alleged assault in 2007.
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