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Lodi News-Sentinel
By Kim Curtis
Associated Press Writer
Last updated: Saturday, Jun 04, 2005 - 06:26:54 am PDT
Oliver O'Grady is both a victim and a victimizer. As a boy in Ireland, he was molested by an older brother and later, by two priests.
Later, as a man of the cloth himself, he molested up to 25 children and had relations with two mothers of his victims.
O'Grady, who served as a parish priest in Lodi during the 1970s, is a profoundly troubled man who struggled with his torment, sought help, but was allowed to continue serving as a priest well after confessing his sins.
The defrocked Irish priest's abusive childhood, his ill-formed ideas about sexuality, his horrifying methods of grooming children and his quiet demands for help that his diocese largely ignored all come out in a 400-page deposition O'Grady gave to lawyers for one of his many victims.
Posted by kshaw at June 4, 2005 09:15 AM