Third person in US sues for alleged abuse by Irish priest

A third person in the US has filed a lawsuit claiming they were abused by Irish priest Michael Kelly.

Third person in US sues for alleged abuse by Irish priest

The Tipperary native hit the headlines earlier this year when it emerged he had fled back to 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. The diocese where the abuse allegedly took place agreed to pay $3.75m (€2.8m) to that claimant.

A then 10-year-old altar boy, identified only as John MT Doe, has now come forward to claim he was sexually abused three times at a mission church in Calaveras around the year 2000 when the priest was a pastor there.

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