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[an error occurred while processing this directive] Former Leominster priest denies raping 9-year-old girl

By , Associated Press, 11/23/01

    Scandal in the church

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WORCESTER, Mass. -- A former priest who was jailed 12 years ago for sexually abusing a child faces new charges that he raped another girl.

Robert E. Kelley, 60, was released Wednesday on $10,000 cash bail after pleading innocent in Worcester Superior Court to sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl between May and July of 1980, when he was a priest at St. Cecilia's Parish in Leominster, said Elizabeth Stammo, a spokeswoman for Worcester District Attorney John Conte.

Kelley has been criminally charged with sexually assaulting six girls in separate lawsuits, Stammo said. Each case is scheduled for an Aug. 27 pretrial conference, she said.

Kelley's lawyer, Anthony Salerno, did not immediately return a telephone call from The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Kelley, who has not been a priest since 1985, pleaded guilty in March 1990 to assault with intent to rape in another case. He was released from prison in 1997.

He has not been defrocked, but the church stripped him of his priestly duties and he receives no money from the Worcester diocese.



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