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Irish ex-priest and convicted sex offender receives $800 a month pension from Church

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CATHY HAYES,
Published Sunday, June 6, 2010, 7:24 AM
Updated Sunday, June 6, 2010, 7:57 AM

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Convicted child molester and former priest Oliver O'Grady receives $800 a month from the Catholic Church
Convicted child molester and former priest Oliver O'Grady receives $800 a month from the Catholic Church


Defrocked Irish priest, Oliver O’Grady, will receive almost $800 a month for the next ten years from his diocese in Stockton, California.

Over the ten years these payments will amount to $94,560.  

O’Grady confessed to molesting up to 25 children in the United States. He was charged with the molestation of two brothers between 1978 and 1991.

However, during interview for the award-winning documentary “Deliver us From Evil” he confessed to having molested up to 25 children.

His acts cost the Stockton diocese millions in settlement claims from sexual abuse lawsuits.

In 1993 he went to prison to serve a 14-year-sentence for his crimes. He was released after six years and deported to Ireland.

Stockton Diocese Bishop Stephen Blaire told O’Grady to request to be removed from the priesthood. The priest refused at first but said that he would agree to leaving the priesthood if the Church gave his a monthly allowance. The Church agreed.

“I wanted to provide some measure of justice or peace of mind for his victims that he could never again use his priesthood to damage families,” said Blaire. “I didn't see any other way of guaranteeing that he would be out of the priesthood.”

Nancy Sloan, now 45-years-old was abused by O’Grady when she was eleven.

She said “He gets rewarded. I get very frustrated…The church has certainly gone back on its word countless times. I don't know why it wouldn't even cross their minds to go back on the annuity - give it back to a victim’s fund.”

This week the ex-priest turned 65 and can now start to claim his $788 pension from the Church. The money is being called “hush money” by many including the Kansas City Star.

The newspaper claims that Bishop Roger Mahoney and others were aware of O’Grady’s history of abuse and turned a blind eye to his actions moving him from parish to parish so his evil acts would go undetected by the authorities.

Jeff Anderson, the lawyer for the two brothers involved in the case that sent him to jail, said the former priest did not deserve any money.

“Why would they pay him after he's been deported, after he's been convicted?” he said.

“He's deserving of no money, certainly from them.”

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Tomassotucson | Sep 01, 2010, 06:17 PM EDT
The question is, how can the Pope allow all this to go on unless, the Pope knows full well, there is nothing he can do about it because he is part of this mess. The Catholic Church (AKA the bishops) have committed so many crimes without punishment that the only way to stop all of it is for the Criminal Justice Department to start an investigation that could take 10 years to resolve.

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Watereskhill | Jun 08, 2010, 12:55 AM EDT
A Bishop worth his salt would have lugged him by the gullet with his fist demanding an answer to these crimes.In place of a whimper to leave the priesthood. The Church is an enclave of sissies of the same ilk and cloth. Not a man among them. And mores the pity.

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SingleDonald | Jun 07, 2010, 07:59 PM EDT
mungie99, Those thoughts crossed my mind too, when I saw the young boy in the background. Remember, these monstrous acts would vilify anybody. When performed by a priest, who people tend to trust, they are reprehensible & diabolical, to a quantitative degree! The Church still teaches that hitting one of these monsters is a "reserved sin"? I challenge anybody, the Pope, or even Jesus himself, on that doctrine!

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yorkville | Jun 07, 2010, 07:04 PM EDT
Thats exactly what i thought,when i saw the child, he is a serial chid rapist! he makes my skin crawl he is vile.

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double11 | Jun 07, 2010, 05:20 PM EDT
church still gives up to scumbags church is finished should close doors

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mungie99 | Jun 07, 2010, 02:14 PM EDT
Is it just me, or isn't it odd that there is a young child playing in the area where the sexual predator is being interviewed? Hope he's registered and that the parents of that child are aware he's close by.

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yorkville | Jun 07, 2010, 01:58 PM EDT
This is a disgrace, i watched that documentry and he is a total lunatic, he shouldnt be walking around the streets, let alone getting a pension.But the catholic church wont listen.

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Godscre | Jun 07, 2010, 12:03 PM EDT
Sorry, I didn't put 1 Cor 5 & 6 for church discipline.

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murphy66 | Jun 07, 2010, 11:11 AM EDT
Blame Jesus. He set up the Catholic Church. Protestants set themselves up.

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Godscre | Jun 07, 2010, 10:43 AM EDT
well said myriambom. Where's the Holy Spirit in picking Priests over the past 100 years? Now we have psychologist picking them. The Church is in big trouble. I'm a licensed counselor and know that the Holy Spirit is the best counselor. The Bible is the best psychology book, yet we (the Church) eliminates most of it with discipline, the Church, etc. Sorry I didn't use all the big words, (magisterium, ecclesiology, hierarchy, etc.) - Jesus was a simple, honest, teacher and St. Peter and St. Paul would have cleaned out the immoral (including all in leadership) a long time ago. If it wasn't for the secular media the abused would not have had a voice and we, The Body of Christ, would not know about this deadly cancer in our body! James 3:1; 1 Cor. 13:1-7

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knockatee | Jun 07, 2010, 10:08 AM EDT
And they excommunicated a nun - for what: saving a mother's life? What hypocrites.

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myriamdom | Jun 07, 2010, 09:58 AM EDT
Hallelujah! That's one good thing of being a priest - he can do whatever he want - moral or immoral, and continue to be financially supported by the Church. Hey, Mom & Dad, why not send your sons to priesthood instead? They enjoy all benefits regular workers do. They get the bosses support and back-up if they mess up, they get compensated, all our from faithful's pocket. Poor little people (lay faithful).

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murphy66 | Jun 07, 2010, 03:44 AM EDT
Hey, Oliver Twisted was a member of a vested pension plan. He's entitled.

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teddybear | Jun 06, 2010, 07:03 PM EDT
No wonder the Catholic Church is going down hill,, that is unbelieveable.

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