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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)
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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
Wellesley Police charge McCarrick with assault in case dating to 1970s On: 7/29/2021, By , In: Nation .Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick attends a Mass in Rome in this April 13, 2018, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) .Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick attends a Mass in Rome in this April 11, 2018, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) .Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is seen at the Vatican March 4, 2013. (CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters)
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BOSTON (CNS) The Boston Globe reported July 29 that police in the Boston suburb of Wellesley have charged former 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.