Norcal Priest on Trial for Sexual Abuse Flees Country

KGO
April 17, 2012

http://www.kgoam810.com/Article.asp?id=2437715&spid=


[with audio]

A Stockton-area Catholic priest on trial for sexually abusing an altar boy repeatedly in the 1980's has fled the country and returned to his homeland in Ireland.

As KGO's Lisa Campbell reports, Michael Kelly, who was due in court to testify Tuesday, had sent a letter to his church saying the stress of the trial was affecting his health and that he had "lost everything" because of "vicious false allegations."