STOCKTON (CA)
The Record

By Jennie Rodriguez-Moore
Record Staff Writer

September 12, 2012

STOCKTON – A 24-year-old man has filed a lawsuit against the Diocese of Stockton alleging that, when he was an altar boy, he was sexually abused by former priest Michael Kelly.

The plaintiff, identified in court documents as John CC Doe, said he was molested by Kelly in the early 2000s when he was 12 years old.

He served as an altar boy at St. Andrew’s Parish in San Andreas.

The suit comes five months after the diocese settled another lawsuit naming Kelly as the abuser for $3.75 million.

Church leaders settled the case with former Cathedral of the Annunciation altar boy Travis Trotter weeks into trial after Kelly suddenly departed to Ireland two days before he was scheduled to testify a second time.