CALIFORNIA
Irish Times
GENEVIEVE CARBERY
A FORMER altar boy has filed a civil case in the US against an Irish priest who, he claims, sexually abused him as a child in California.
The Californian man (24) claims that he was sexually abused and harassed by the now-defrocked Tipperary native Michael Kelly in the early 2000s from the age of 12.
Last April Michael Kelly was removed from ministry by the Californian Diocese of Stockton after a civil jury found against him in a separate civil case alleging sexual abuse in the 1980s.
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