STOCKTON (CA)
The Sacramento Bee
Associated Press
Published: Friday, Apr. 20, 2012
STOCKTON, Calif. — The Catholic Diocese of Stockton has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a lawsuit by a former altar boy who said he was molested by a priest in the 1980s and church officials didn’t do enough to stop it, attorneys for the alleged victim and the diocese said Friday.
The altar boy, now in his 30s, said Michael Kelly abused him in the 1980s while Kelly was a priest at Cathedral of Annunciation in Stockton. A civil jury in the lawsuit found Kelly liable for the molestation earlier this month. Kelly was removed from the ministry and has since gone to his native Ireland, citing health problems.
The settlement was reached as the trial was in its second phase to determine whether the diocese was also at fault.
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