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"Deliver Us From Evil:" Abuser Becomes Church's Accuser

June 26, 2006 | By Gina Piccalo

As he describes his pedophilic urges, Oliver O'Grady, a former priest who for about 20 years fondled and raped children from his Central California parishes, stands in a Dublin, Ireland, park smiling, noting casually as a small red-headed boy walks right behind him. He lives nearby, alone and unchecked by police, though O'Grady served seven years in a California prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy in the mid-1990s. Nearby, a playground is visible.

This is just one of many chilling moments from "Deliver Us From Evil," a new documentary directed by investigative news producer Amy Be...

 
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June 26, 2006
 

Hardwood Babylon: A decade later, Mater Dei High School’s still protecting a coach accused of sleeping with students

April 27, 2006 | By Gustavo Arellano

Editor’s note: The names of the alleged victims and students in this story have been changed.



In the spring of 1996, an English teacher at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana snatched the following note as students tried to pass it across her classroom:



Linda,
Charles told me, did you hear about Coach Andrade & I said no, what? He goes coach fucked a girl that comes here & I play it off, like Naah. I go who? He goes I don’t know. Some junior. I guess he doesn’t know or maybe he knows that I know. But I swear to God I didn’t tell anyone.

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Andrade. Photo from 1995 Mater D...

 
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The case against Andrade settled in 2007 for more than a million dollars. Bishop Tod Brown also faced contempt of court charges in the case for allowing witness John Urell to flee to Canada to avoid a court-ordered deposition.
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April 27, 2006