STOCKTON (CA)
Lodi News-Sentinel
By Ross Farrow/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
The 37-year-old man suing Father Michael Kelly for alleged sexual abuse testified Friday that Kelly sexually assaulted him when the man was in the fifth grade.
He said the pain of the act made him cry.
The plaintiff, whose name is being withheld by court order because he claims to be a sexual assault victim, is suing Kelly and the Stockton Diocese, saying that Kelly sexually assaulted him at least once in the 1980s when the plaintiff was in the fifth grade at Annunciation School in Stockton.
Kelly, 62, has been pastor of St. Joachim’s Catholic Church in Lockeford the past eight years. The alleged assault took place when Kelly was a priest at Cathedral of the Annunciation, located next door to the school of the same name, according to the plaintiff.
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