Former Stockton Priest, and Convicted Child Abuser, Facing More Allegations

By Sam Cohen
FOX40
May 3, 2012

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A convicted pedophile, and former Catholic priest in the Stockton Diocese, is facing more allegations of sexual abuse.

Bishop Stephen Blaire released a statement Wednesday, stating the Diocese just learned of a civil complaint filed against Oliver O’Grady.

O’Grady was a priest at St. Andrew’s Parish in San Andreas in 1992, when the suit alleges the abuse happened.

He was originally arrested in 1993, and served seven years after pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual abuse with children while he was a priest at San Andreas.

According to the Lodi News Sentinel, O’Grady was arrested again in December 2010 in Ireland where he lived at the time. He was reportedly found with thousands of images of child pornography.

Law enforcement is looking into the new allegations from 1992.

Last month, the Stockton Diocese settled another abuse civil suit against a different priest. Father Michael Kelly left the country for Ireland in the middle of his civil trial. The Diocese agreed to pay the unidentified victim and his attorneys more than $3.5 million.