Defrocked Cardinal - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 02 Aug 2021 09:16:32 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Defrocked Cardinal - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Theodore Cardinal McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting a teen https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/08/02/defrocked-cardinal-mccarrick-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-a-teen/ Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:51:53 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=138869 Theodore McCarrick, a former US Cardinal, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s, court records show. Court documents obtained by The Boston Globe shows that McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14. McCarrick was defrocked in 2018 Read more

Theodore Cardinal McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting a teen... Read more]]> Theodore McCarrick, a former US Cardinal, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s, court records show.

Court documents obtained by The Boston Globe shows that McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14.

McCarrick was defrocked in 2018 after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children.

McCarrick is the first cardinal in the US to be criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor, according to Mitchell Garabedian, a well-known lawyer for church sexual abuse victims. Garabedian is representing the man alleging the abuse by McCarrick.

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