Ex-Cardinal McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting teen at Wellesley College in the 1970s

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AP

AP

July 29 2021

BOSTON (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the onetime archbishop of Washington, D.C., 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 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 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.

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