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Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Criminally Charged with Sex Abuse
30 Jul 2021
Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been criminally charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery, for allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy in 1974.
In 2018, the Vatican opened an investigation into the serial homosexual abuse of the former U.S. cardinal leading to a guilty verdict and laicization or “dismissal from the clerical state.”
Prior to his canonical trial, Pope Francis had accepted McCarrick’s resignation from the college of cardinals after revelations of sexual impropriety and abuse spanning decades.
The 91-year-old McCarrick was never tried until now of sexual abuse in a criminal court because his alleged crimes took place outside state statutes of limitation.
Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick attends a Mass in Rome in this April 13, 2018, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Boston 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 age 14 in a criminal complaint filed by Wellesley Police in a district court in nearby Dedham, Massachusetts.
A summons has been issued ordering McCarrick, now 91, to appear at the court for arraignment Aug. 26.
The Globe reported that McCarrick is now living in Missouri. The address listed for McCarrick in the court filings is the Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer, Missouri, located in Jefferson County, a suburban county of St. Louis on the eastern side of the state.
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
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.