MAN ACCUSES CATHOLIC CARDINAL MACCARRICK OF MULTIPLE SEXUAL ASSAULT

WASHINGTON, United States – A catholic priest with the Archdiocese of New York, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been accused of sexually assaulting an 11 year old boy on several occasion. The victim(James) who filed the police report against the cardinal on Monday alleged that from the age of 11 he was sexually abused and assaulted serially by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was born July 7, 1930.

According to The New York Times, the victim who is now 39 alleged that McCarrick began sexually abusing him in 1969, when the priest was 39.According to the report, McCarrick abused him for almost two decades and that the incident led him into alcohol and drug abuse for years.

According to the New York Times, in 1969, when the abuse is alleged to have begun, McCarrick ended a four-year term as president of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, and became assistant secretary for education in the Archdiocese of New York, adding that in 1977, he became auxiliary bishop of New York, and later became the Bishop of Metuchen, Archbishop of Newark, and, eventually, Archbishop of Washington.

Criminal statutes of limitation may prevent McCarrick from being charged with crimes relating to the abuse alleged Monday. A canonical statute of limitations, known technically as prescription, might also preclude the possibility that McCarrick face canonical charges for the alleged abuse, although the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is authorized to waive that statute in certain circumstances.

Joseph Zwilling, spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, told CNA Thursday that the archdiocese learned of these allegations only when the New York Times article was published.