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Defrocked cardinal accused of sex assault on teen at wedding reception
In this May 16, 2006, file photo, former Washington Archbishop, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick pauses during a press conference in Washington. McCarrick, the once-influential American cardinal who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception at Wellesley College in the 1970s, court records show. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick charged with sexual assault of a minor
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BOSTON (AP) â Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in Massachusetts in 1974, court records show.
McCarrick is the first cardinal in the U.S. to ever be criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor, according to Mitchell Garabedian, a well-known lawyer for church sexual abuse victims who is representing the man alleging the abuse by McCarrick. It takes an enormous amount of courage for a sexual abuse victim to report having been sexually abused to investigators and proceed through the criminal process, Garabedian said in an email. âLet the facts be presented, the law applied, and a fair verdict rendered.â
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Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked in 2019 after the Vatican found him guilty of sex crimes, has been charged today, July 29, with new sexual assault charges.
McCarrick, now 91 years old, has been charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, according to The Boston Globe, who was the first to report on the new charges.
The alleged victim, whose name has not been published, claims that McCarrick, a friend of his family, molested him in his youth.
The Boston Globe reports: “On June 8, 1974, the alleged victim, then 16, said he was at his brother’s wedding reception at Wellesley College when McCarrick told him his father wanted the two of them to have a talk because the teenager was being mischievous at home and not attending church, according to the report.
Police charge former US cardinal McCarrick with indecent assault
The crimes for which he is charged allegedly took place in 1974, when he was a New York archdiocesan priest
Updated: July 30, 2021 05:49 AM GMT
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Cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives for talks ahead of a conclave to elect a new pope at the Vatican on March 4, 2013. (Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP)
Police in the Boston suburb of Wellesley have charged former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 in a criminal complaint filed by Wellesley Police in a district court in nearby Dedham, Massachusetts, the
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