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Lodi News-Sentinel
Posted: Friday, September 14, 2012
By Ross Farrow/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
Former Lockeford priest Michael Kelly says that he did not sexually abuse a 12-year-old former altar boy in about 2000.
“I am completely and totally innocent of these allegations; they are utterly untrue,” Kelly said in an email to the News-Sentinel from his native Ireland. “Never, ever, did I do anything of the sort to the plaintiff, or to anyone else, for that matter.”
Kelly responded to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Stockton by a 24-year-old man who was an altar boy in San Andreas when Kelly was lead priest there. The suit alleges that Kelly sexually abused the plaintiff more than a decade ago.
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