STOCKTON (CA)
Calaveras Enterprise
by Alex George
An unidentified 25-year-old man has filed a lawsuit against the Stockton Diocese, alleging defrocked priest and convicted pedophile Oliver O’Grady molested him at the age of 5.
O’Grady, who is serving a three-year prison term in Ireland for possessing child pornography, was assigned to San Andreas’ St. Andrew’s Parish in 1992, when the alleged incident occurred. O’Grady bounced around from parish to parish throughout the 1970s and ‘80s in what critics say was an effort by diocese officials to conceal sexual molestation allegations.
The complaint also names the Stockton Diocese’s highest-ranking official, Bishop Stephen Blaire, who became the presiding bishop in 1999.
Blaire said he shared the complaint with the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office after receiving it Wednesday, but has not had the opportunity to review it.
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