"We will look forward to addressing the case in the courtroom,” an attorney for the 91-year-old suspect said.Robert Franklin / South Bend Tribune via AP fileDefrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with sexual assault in Massachusetts, officials said Thursday, making him the highest U.S. clergyman accused in the abuse scandal that's rocked the Catholic Church.
McCarrick, 91, is charged with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, stemming from an incident that happened in Wellesley in the 1970s, according to Norfolk County District Attorney's spokesman David Traub."We will look forward to addressing the case in the courtroom," Barry Coburn, McCarrick's Washington, D.C.-based attorney, told NBC News.
“Historically, this is the first time ever in the United States that a cardinal has been criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor,” Garabedian said in a statement. “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."
Scratched this message in wine (not real blood) - be an eunuch, yourself.
Pedophile ring
'the abuse scandal that's rocked the Catholic Church' you make it sound like it's a single scandal, but it's really a giant continuous criminal enterprise & coverup that has spanned decades & continents
When are we going to realize that the Catholic Church breeds pedophiles. The parents are complicit.
'defrocked' hahahahahahahahahahaha
That entire religion needs banned, all they do is rape children and cause religious wars.
How many times did the Catholic church just transfer him before he did this?
The catholic church is just like the DOJ & FBI it seems
The rot runs deep. As it does in every religion, let’s not pretend it doesn’t. But the Catholics are abysmal
Imagine how many years this preditor got away with this...
How many of THESE old MF's have been charged throughout time? How bout one that actually goes to prison ..
Keep climbing higher
Good ole Catholics.
KenDilanianNBC Shouldn't be any mercy if you knew what happened to young children and then when then found out they moved these priests around like chess pieces spreading it around to more and more parishes without any thought they deserve everthing they get and more people died because of them
Cuff him and stuff him.
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