How Many Chances Are Left?

The Record
February 3, 2012

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Former Stockton-area priest and notorious pedophile Oliver O'Grady is back in prison, charged yet again with crimes involving sexually abused children.

O'Grady, who served nine years in prison before being defrocked and deported when he was released in 2000, was sentenced in his native Ireland to three years in prison.

His crime this time? He had thousands of electronically-stored pornographic photos and videos of children. The images were found in 2010 on a laptop he left behind on a flight to Ireland from the Netherlands where he fled after the release of a documentary film, "Deliver Us From Evil," that detailed his crimes.

O'Grady served time in California after his 1993 arrest for sexually abusing children while serving in the Dioceses of Stockton. The church spent millions to settle more than two dozen lawsuits brought by his alleged victims.

O'Grady changes venues but clearly he has not changed his ways, which begs the question: How many chances does this man get before he is permanently removed from society?