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	Lawsuit Alleges Abuse by Lockeford Priest Lodi News-Sentinel March 28, 2008 http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2008/03/28/update/lawsuit-web.txt A lawsuit alleges that in the 1980s, Father Michael Kelly, the parish priest in Lockeford, abused a young boy who is now serving with the U.S. military. The suit filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court on Wednesday alleges the abuse began when the boy was 7 and lasted until he was 11 during a period from 1982 to 1985. It alleges that Kelly was a priest at Stockton's Cathedral of the Annunciation at the time. The Stockton Diocese reinstated Kelly to his post in Lockeford after a diocese investigation found no evidence of the alleged abuse. A call to the diocese's communications staff was not immediately returned Friday. Vince Finaldi, an attorney with the firm that filed the lawsuit -- Newport Beach based Manly and Stewart -- said it was "reprehensible" that the church would allow Kelly to rejoin his parish.
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