Accused priest’s diocese pays victim $3.75m

A Californian diocese has agreed to pay $3.75m (€2.8m) to a man abused as a child by the Tipperary priest who last week fled the US to return to Ireland.

On Apr 6, Fr Michael Kelly, who maintains his innocence, was found “liable” of sexual misconduct against the then 10-year-old boy in the Stockton diocese more than 20 years ago.

The victim has now waived his anonymity and identified himself as Travis Trotter, a former altar boy at the Cathedral of the Annunciation.