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New York (AFP) - A Boston judge ruled Wednesday that former top US Catholic official Theodore McCarrick was cognitively unable to stand trial for sexually assaulting a teenage boy five decades ago. Based on the testimony of a forensic psychologist that the 93-year-old has dementia, "Mr. McCarrick is not competent to stand trial," ruled Massachusetts state judge Paul McCallum. With that ruling, the state prosecutor withdrew the case against the former cardinal, the highest US Catholic official to face charges in the sweeping scandal over the systemic sexual abuse of minors in the Church. "The c...
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New York (AFP) - A Boston judge ruled Wednesday that former top US Catholic official Theodore McCarrick was cognitively unable to stand trial for sexually assaulting a teenage boy five decades ago. Based on the testimony of a forensic psychologist that he has dementia, "Mr. McCarrick is not competent to stand trial," ruled Massachusetts state judge Paul McCallum. With that ruling, the state prosecutor withdrew the case against the 93-year-old former cardinal, the highest US Catholic official to face charges in the sweeping scandal over the systemic sexual abuse of minors in the Church. "The co...
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New York (AFP) - Former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the most senior Roman Catholic official in America to face criminal charges in the massive clergy abuse scandal, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he sexually assaulted a teenage boy. McCarrick, 91, arrived at Massachusetts District Court in the town of Dedham walking hunched over with the aid of a walker, amid some boos, video shared on social media showed. McCarrick's attorney, Barry Coburn, confirmed that he pleaded not guilty. Coburn said he had no further comment. "Today, history is being made. History that will not be forgo...
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New York (AFP) - Former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy, court documents showed Thursday, making him the most senior Roman Catholic official in America to face criminal charges in the massive clergy abuse scandal. The 91-year-old, a former archbishop of Washington DC, was slapped with three counts of indecent assault and battery against a child over 14, according to a filing in a Massachusetts district court. McCarrick was thrown out of the Catholic Church in 2019, becoming the highest-ranking Church figure to be expelled in modern times. ...
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Vatican City (AFP) - The Vatican admitted Tuesday that late pope John Paul II ignored advice against promoting US clergyman Theodore McCarrick to cardinal given rumours of sexual misconduct against him that were later substantiated.The admission was made in the 450-page findings of a two-year investigation into who knew what about McCarrick's abuse of at least one teenage boy and a number of male seminarians. The latest in a decades-old scandal over abuse that has rocked the Catholic Church worldwide, the report also said John Paul II's decisions were influenced by "inaccurate and incomplete i...
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Vatican City (AFP) - The Vatican on Tuesday denied a cover-up over a US ex-cardinal accused of sexual abuse, admitting mistakes were made but saying Theodore McCarrick's crimes had for years been nothing but rumours.A 450-page report on who knew what -- and whether three consecutive popes overlooked McCarrick's abuse of at least one teenage boy and a number of male seminarians -- accused senior US clergy of providing "inaccurate and incomplete information to the Holy See" about his behaviour.The influential former archbishop of Washington, DC, who played a key role in raising funds for the Hol...
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Vatican City (AFP) - The Vatican said Friday that next week it will publish the results of a long-awaited investigation into ex-US cardinal Theodore McCarrick following his expulsion last year for sexual abuse.Pope Francis had promised in 2018 to make a "thorough" investigation of how McCarrick, now 90, rose through the ranks despite years of allegations about sexual misconduct.McCarrick was finally stripped of his cardinal's title in 2018 and his priest's status in 2019, after being found guilty by the Vatican of the sexual abuse of a teenage boy in the 1970s, and of sexual misconduct with ad...
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