Witnesses tell of priest’s behavior around kids

CALIFORNIA
The Record

By Jennie Rodriguez-Moore
Record Staff Writer

March 01, 2012

STOCKTON – Witness testimony in a civil lawsuit alleging Lockeford’s the Rev. Michael Kelly sexually molested an altar boy began Wednesday in a courtroom full of the priest’s supporters.

Now a 37-year-old man, the plaintiff is seeking damages from Kelly and the Diocese of Stockton, saying he recovered repressed memories of him being molested by the priest.

The plaintiff was a student at Annunciation School during the mid-1980s and an altar boy at Cathedral of the Annunciation, where Kelly has served.

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