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	Convicted Priest-Abuser in Flight? Catholic World News October 18, 2006 http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=47155 Oct. 18 (CWNews.com) - The defrocked California priest who was the central figure in a controversial documentary film about the Church sex-abuse crisis has disappeared, the Sacramento Bee reports. Oliver O'Grady, a former priest of the Stockton diocese who had been living in Ireland since serving a prison term in California for molesting children, reportedly left his home there, shortly before the opening of a film in which he is the central character. In Deliver Us from Evil, O'Grady speaks candidly about his years as a priest and his repeated assaults on children. He reports that his bishop in Stockton-- now the head of the Los Angeles archdiocese, Cardinal Roger Mahony-- was aware of his activities but continued to assign him to parish work. Early screenings of the film have fueled new outrage over the sex-abuse scandal, and new criticism of Cardinal Mahony's leadership.
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