STOCKTON (CA)
Lodi News-Sentinel
By Ross Farrow and Maggie Creamer/News-Sentinel Staff Writers
A 25-year-old man who says that convicted pedophile Oliver O’Grady sexually molested him in 1992 has sued O’Grady and the Stockton Diocese.
O’Grady, who is in an Irish jail after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography, was assigned to parishes in San Andreas and Hughson when the plaintiff was allegedly molested. He was a priest at Lodi’s St. Anne’s Catholic Church from 1971 to 1978.
In an unrelated case, O’Grady was convicted in 1993 of four counts of lewd and lascivious acts against two boys in San Andreas. He spent seven years at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione before being paroled in 2000. He was then deported to his native Ireland and has been defrocked as a priest.
The lawsuit alleges that O’Grady molested the plaintiff when he was 5 years old. The plaintiff said he was molested in the priest’s bedroom in the rectory while O’Grady was babysitting.
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