CALIFORNIA
Modesto Bee
[with timeline]
By Sue Nowicki
snowicki@modbee.com
Attorney John Manly said many Stockton Diocese parishioners continue to insist the Rev. Michael Kelly is innocent of sexually abusing children because the diocese has not been forthcoming with the truth. As evidence, his office sent The Bee copies of two internal diocesan documents regarding Kelly.
One shows a chronology from March 12, 1999, to Jan. 31, 2000. It includes a handful of unspecified concerns by parishioners related to Kelly and the resulting action by the diocese. It says Kelly was “shocked” by the first complaint about the way he related to a 4-year-old child and “asserted he never had nor ever would do anything to hurt a child.”
It further says Kelly was “very cooperative” and agreed to be evaluated and treated by a psychologist in 1999 and again in 2000, when he was sent to St. John Vianney Institute in Pittsburgh for a four-day “in-depth evaluation.” Kelly also was told not to be alone with children, and later was instructed not to visit families with children while undergoing counseling.
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