Kelly’s escape to Belgium stymied



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A JAILED Catholic priest has agreed with a judge to have his imminent parole deferred until he could be sentenced for a range of new child-abuse convictions.

  James Kelly, 75, used a walker to enter Cork District Court in south-west Ireland on Tuesday -- the day when almost all of his 36-year sentence for previous convictions was supposed to have been commuted.

  Instead, Kelly asked for the hearing, which was intended to discuss plans for his resettlement in a Church-run nursing home in Belgium, to be adjourned.

  The move followed Kelly's arrest, confession and conviction on Monday for 77 more cases of abusing boys aged 10 to 15 in the 50s and 60s.

  Judge A. G. Murphy ordered Kelly to be returned to jail pending sentencing next month.

  The same judge provoked anger last year when he commuted the bulk of Kelly's 36-year term for sexually abusing 14 boys in Cork and the western Irish city of Galway from 1956 to 1968. --ASSOCIATED PRESS

"Priest goes back to jail," The West Australian, Thursday February 28 2002, p 23.
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