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Lodi News-Sentinel
By Ross Farrow/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
Former Lockeford priest Michael Kelly and the Stockton Diocese have been sued for the third time on allegations that Kelly sexually abused former altar boys.
The most recent lawsuit was filed by Orange County attorney John Manly on Wednesday morning in San Joaquin County Superior Court in Stockton.
The suit alleges that a former altar boy, who was 10 years old at the time, was sexually assaulted three times in about 2000, when the boy attended Mokelumne Hill Catholic Church in Calaveras County. Mokelumne Hill is a mission church to St. Andrew’s in San Andreas. Kelly was pastor of both churches at the time.
Kelly was pastor at Lockeford’s St. Joachim Catholic Church in Lockeford from 2004 until he was removed as a priest on April 6, the same day a San Joaquin County Superior Court jury found him liable of sexual assault relating to incidents in the mid-1980s. Kelly left abruptly for Ireland about a week after being found liable.
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