By Ross Farrow
News-Sentinel [Lodi CA]
October 3, 2006
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2006/10/03/update/2_ogrady.txt
A documentary about former Lodi priest Oliver O'Grady's life as a pedophile will be shown in Lodi beginning Oct. 27. The movie, "Deliver Us From Evil," will be shown at Lodi Stadium 12, according to a publicist for Lions Gate Entertainment.
The film, which debuted in June at the Los Angeles Film Festival, features film director Amy Berg's interview with O'Grady, who has lived in his native Ireland since being deported in 2000.
In the interview, O'Grady discusses in graphic terms his years of sexually abusing children, according to the film's Web site.
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Berg told Newsweek recently that she talked to O'Grady by phone for five months about discussing his sexual abuse problems on camera. She finally went to Ireland and interview him.
O'Grady had held his feelings in for so long he was ready to talk about it, O'Grady told Newsweek.
After a week of listening to O'Grady talk about molesting children, Berg told Newsweek she couldn't handle it physically.
"I spent the last day of the trip holed up in my hotel room, unable to get out of bed," she said.
In addition to O'Grady being filmed on camera, the movie includes comments Cardinal Roger Mahony from a deposition he gave in 2004 about what knowledge he had of O'Grady's conduct.
O'Grady was a priest at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Lodi from 1971 to 1978. He then served at parishes in Stockton, Turlock, Hughson and San Andreas before being arrested for sexual molestation in Calaveras County.
He served seven years at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione after pleading guilty in 1993 to four counts of sexual abuse with children under 14 in San Andreas. He was deported shortly after being released from prison on parole.
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