Defrocked cardinal charged with sexually abusing teen boy in 1974
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Theodore McCarrick is the first cardinal in the US to ever be criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor
Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults and children, has been charged with sexually abusing a teenage boy during a wedding reception in Massachusetts in 1974, court records show.
McCarrick is the first cardinal in the US 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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