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New questions about Father Michael Kelly’s guilt or innocence — Case seen as similar to story of priest accused in the movie “Doubt”
Niall O’Dowd
I had occasion to speak to a person from California who is a long time friend of Father Michael Kelly, the California-based priest who flew to his native Ireland after losing a civil case against him on an abuse charge.
Yesterday we wrote that Kelly was found liable on the civil charge despite the fact that the accusations against him by a 37-year old man, a pilot for Southwest Airlines, were based on “recovered memories” a highly dubious method as recent history has shown in cases such as the McMartin preschool case.
The man alleged that Kelly abused him when he was a young altar boy back in the mid 1980s.
The person who knows Kelly for over twenty years says they believe that Kelly was likely innocent but they could not be absolutely certain.
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