STOCKTON (CA)
The Record

September 13, 2012

STOCKTON – The attorneys for a 24-year-old former altar boy who says he was molested by removed Priest Michael Kelly say they want top officials of the Diocese of Stockton to be held accountable for Kelly’s sex crimes.

“Why did (Bishop Stephen Blaire) allow this man to continue to minister?” said John Manly of the Newport Beach-based Manly and Stewart law firm.

Manly announced that the firm has filed a civil lawsuit against the Diocese of Stockton on behalf of the former altar boy referred to in court documents as John CC Doe at a news conference Wednesday in front of San Joaquin County Superior Court.

Manly also represented Travis Trotter, who agreed to settle his child sex-abuse civil case against the diocese and Kelly for $3.75 million in April. Trotter said he was raped by Kelly as a student and altar…