Infamous Irish Priest Faces New Sex Charge

Oliver O’Grady, the Irish-born priests whose rape of children in California was documented in the Oscar-nominated film “Deliver Us From Evil,” now faces a new legal challenge, according to the Stockton Record. Says the Record: A new lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Stockton alleges that former priest sexually abused another child while serving in […]

Oliver O’Grady, the Irish-born priests whose rape of children in California was documented in the Oscar-nominated film “Deliver Us From Evil,” now faces a new legal challenge, according to the Stockton Record.

Says the Record:

A new lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Stockton alleges that former priest sexually abused another child while serving in Lodi, Calif. in the 1970s.


A 43-year-old female plaintiff filed the suit anonymously, claiming she was a student of O’Grady’s at St. Anne’s parish school in the early to mid-’70s when the abuse took place.

It is one of many such suits against O’Grady, who served prison time for child molestation and then became the subject of an award-winning documentary about his crimes.

O’Grady was convicted in 1993 of molesting two boys, served seven years in Ione’s Mule Creek State Prison and was deported to Ireland in 2000. He disappeared after the documentary, “Deliver Us from Evil,” came out in theaters, according to reports by U.S. and Irish newspapers.

A year ago, a 42-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman each filed lawsuits alleging abuse by the defrocked priest. Both suits were dismissed and are being appealed, said attorney M. Ryan DiMaria of Newport Beach law firm Manly, McGuire and Stewart, which has represented many plaintiffs in clergy abuse cases, including the one that sent O’Grady to prison.

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