In the News ... "Late Midland priest accused in Pennsylvania case"

• Investigation details sexual abuse of 1,000 children

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

MIDLAND/ODESSA, TEXAS - Area Catholics have been rocked by news that a priest who served in Midland and at a series of San Angelo Diocese churches from 1994 until his death in 2005 has been named in a Pennsylvania investigation that concluded some 300 priests had sexually molested more than 1,000 children in the Keystone State.

However, church officials said mental health counseling and restrictions on the late Father Thomas “Tom” Kelley’s ministry were apparently effective because there were no allegations of impropriety against him after he left Erie, Pennsylvania ...

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