STOCKTON (CA)
The Record
By Jennie Rodriguez-Moore
Record Staff Writer
July 01, 2012
STOCKTON – The state’s highest court has dismissed four cases involving defrocked Priest Oliver O’Grady in a decades-long sex abuse scandal that has cost the Diocese of Stockton millions of dollars in lawsuit settlements.
O’Grady, a former Stockton priest, was deported to Ireland after serving time in the 1990s for committing sex crimes against children.
Years later, O’Grady continues to be a source of ongoing legal problems for the Catholic Church and Bishop Stephen Blaire, who joined the local diocese in 1999.
But late last week, the California Supreme Court dismissed four complaints, upholding prior lower-court decisions that found the alleged victims’ arguments did not meet legal statutes of limitations.
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