Irish priest flees US a day before giving abuse evidence

A priest has fled back to his native Ireland just a day before he was due to give evidence relating to abuse he was accused of inflicting upon an altar boy in the 1980s.

On Apr 6, Tipperary native Fr Michael Kelly was found “liable” of sexual misconduct against the boy in the Stockton diocese in California.

He is also separately under criminal investigation by authorities separately, where he is accused of molesting another altar boy in San Andreas in the early 2000s.