Boston: Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after the Vatican investigation confirmed that he had sexually persecuted and children, had been charged with attacking a teenager during the marriage receipt in the 1970s, showing a note.
Court documents obtained by Boston Globe showed that McCarrick was charged with three allegations of indecent attacks and batteries in someone for 14 years.
McCarrick is the first cardinal in the US to be prosecuted with sexual crimes against minors, according to Mitchell Garabedian, a lawyer is famous for victims of the church’s sexual abuse that representing the man accusing abuse by McCarrick.
“It takes a large amount of courage to victims of sexual abuse to report sexually harassed to investigators and continue through the criminal process,” Garabedian said in an email.
“Let the facts presented, the law applied, and a fair verdict is given.
” Barry Coburn, a lawyer for McCarrick, told the Associated Press that they” hoped to overcome the case in the courtroom, “and rejected further comments .
A report submitted in court said that the man told investigators that McCarrick was a family friend and began to abuse him when he was a child.
The man said McCarrick fed his day when he was 16 years old when they walked around the Wellesley College campus, at the Wellesley College campus on where he brother’s wedding reception was held.
The man also alleged that McCarrick took him to a room and caressed the boy before telling him to “say three of our fathers and a Mary or it was our father and three God could redeem.
You from your sins, “According to court documents.
McCarrick, 91, defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after the Vatican investigation confirmed several decades of rumors that he was a sexual predator.
The case creates a credibility crisis for VA.
Tican has an authoritative cardinal report Derived from 1999 that McCarrick’s behavior was problematic, but he became a cardinal, kingmaker and envoy from “soft diplomacy.
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