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	Defrocked Priest Died of Natural Causes, Coroner Says CBS 5 [Windsor CA] September 19, 2006 http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2006/09/19/ n/HeadlineNews/KIMBALL-DEATH/resources_bcn_html Donald Kimball, the defrocked Roman Catholic priest found dead Friday in a Windsor residence whose 2002 conviction for committing lewd acts against a girl under the age of 14 was overturned, likely died of a heart attack, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department reported Monday. Kimball's body was found at 6:09 a.m. after Windsor police were asked to make a welfare check. Sgt. Tim Duke said on Friday that there was no evidence of criminal activity, and an autopsy conducted Monday by the coroner's office showed his preliminary cause of death was from a heart attack. He was 62. Kimball ultimately escaped serving a seven-year prison term for committing two lewd acts with a girl in the St. John's rectory in Healdsburg in 1981, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled as unconstitutional the California law that was used to convict him and other sex offenders of decades-old offenses. Kimball was acquitted of raping another underage girl at the Resurrection Church in Santa Rosa in 1977. Kimball, a popular youth minister in the 1970s who had a radio program, was accused by other underage parishioners of sexual misconduct and was the target of civil suits. The Santa Rosa Diocese settled one of those suits filed by a Sacramento woman for $3.3 million.
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