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Defrocked Stockton Priest Sentenced To Three Years On Child Porn Charges

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(CBS13) – A former Stockton priest who was defrocked for molesting children and whose story was made into an award-winning documentary on sex abuse in the Catholic church has been sentenced to three years behind bars on child porn charges in Ireland.

The Irish Examiner reports Oliver O’Grady admitted to three counts of possession of child porn after leaving his computer on a flight from Amsterdam in December of 2010.

The 66-year-old was the subject of an award-winning 2006 documentary, “Deliver Us from Evil,” in which he talked openly of abusing more than 20 children as he was shuffled from one parish to another in California through the 1970s and 80s.

O’Grady was convicted in 1994 of molesting two brothers and he served almost seven years in a U.S. prison before being deported to his native Ireland.

In June 2010, survivors of O’Grady’s abuse expressed outrage when the Stockton Diocese announced that he would receive monthly payments totaling nearly $100,000 over 10 years as part of a deal to get him to leave the priesthood.

The Stockton Diocese has been hit with a slew of lawsuits over O’Grady’s actions.

Also in 2010, the Dutch Catholic Church came under fire after it emerged that O’Grady had been working as church volunteer in the city of Rotterdam. O’Grady had been living in the country under another name, but parishioners recognized him when “Deliver Us from Evil” was aired on Dutch television in April. By that time, the disgraced cleric had already left the country.

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  • sheila volek

    How come an Irish ex priest can be deported to his native country but it is SO difficult to deport the illegal hispanics…….mighty fishy,,,,,but us the real reason the powers that be don’t want to upset the hispanic VOTE

  • gna

    It’s a friggin goofy world

  • DMM

    That sicko served in the Turlock Parish at Sacred Heart for a few years during my early teen years. He should have gotten more years than THREE years:((

    • sheila volek

      Agreed….know of a person who was accused of having child porn on computer but had never touched a child…..he got 7 years….hopefully this pervert will get what’s due himduring his 3 years

  • John Deegan

    I would like to thank the Examiner for exposing this man while in Holland…Thank u…I was present when he was sentenced yesterday.He had viewed and store up to 500,000 images and videos of child porn.

  • Neil Allen

    Parents – keep your children away from Catholic priests

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