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Diabierna 30 Juli 2021

Ex-Cardinal McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting teen

(AP) — Former Cardi- case in the courtroom,” and documents. reports of sexual misconduct. est circles of church leader-
nal Theodore McCarrick, declined further comment. An internal investigation re- ship — even as awareness of
who was defrocked after McCarrick, who now lives in Before leaving the room, Mc- port released last year put the his suspect behavior spread
a Vatican investigation Missouri, has been ordered Carrick told him to “say three lion’s share of blame on Pope steadily through the hierar-
confirmed he had sexu- to appear in Massachusetts Our Fathers and a Hail Mary John Paul II, who appointed chy.
ally molested adults as for his arraignment on Aug. or it was one Our Father and McCarrick archbishop of
well as children, has been 26. three Hail Marys, so God can Washington, D.C., despite Ordained as a priest in New
charged with sexually as- redeem you of your sins,” ac- having commissioned an in- York City in 1958, McCar-
saulting a teenage boy The charges against McCar- cording to the report. quiry that confirmed he slept rick rose to become archbish-
during a wedding recep- rick were first reported by with seminarians. op of Newark, New Jersey, in
tion in Massachusetts in The Boston Globe on Thurs- The man also described other 1986 and then archbishop of
1974, court records show. day. instances of sexual abuse by Anne Barrett Doyle, co- Washington, D.C., in 2000.
McCarrick over the years, in- founder of the online re- He was elevated to the rank
McCarrick is the first car- The man said the abuse start- cluding when the man was an search database BishopAc- of cardinal in 2001 by Pope
dinal in the U.S. to ever be ed when he was a young boy, adult, the report said. countability.org, said that “for John Paul II.
criminally charged with a according to the court re- McCarrick, today’s reckon-
sexual crime against a minor, cords. The man told authori- Authorities began investigat- ing is long overdue.” In June 2018, McCarrick
according to Mitchell Ga- ties during an interview in ing McCarrick after Garabe- suddenly became the face of
rabedian, a well-known law- January that McCarrick was dian sent a letter alleging the “We hope that these charges the long-festering Catholic
yer for church sexual abuse close to his family and would abuse to the district attor- lead to justice,” she said in an sex abuse crisis as Pope Fran-
victims who is representing perform wedding masses, ney’s office, according to the emailed statement. cis removed him from public
the man alleging the abuse by baptisms and funerals for court records. ministry due to allegations
McCarrick. them. Jeff Anderson, an attorney that he abused a teenager
McCarrick, 91, was de- who has represented others while a priest in New York. A
“It takes an enormous The man said that during his frocked by Pope Francis in who say they were victimized church panel determined that
amount of courage for a brother’s wedding reception 2019 after a Vatican investi- by McCarrick, said in a state- a former altar boy’s allega-
sexual abuse victim to report at Wellesley College in June gation confirmed decades of ment that the defrocked car- tions that McCarrick fondled
having been sexually abused 1974 — when he was 16 — rumors that he was a sexual dinal’s “history of prolific sex him before Christmas Mass
to investigators and proceed McCarrick told him that his predator. crimes has been ignored by at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in
through the criminal pro- father wanted him to have a the highest-ranking Catholic 1971 and 1972 were “credible
cess,” Garabedian said in an talk with McCarrick because The case created a credibil- officials for decades.” and substantiated.”
email. “Let the facts be pre- the boy was “being mischie- ity crisis for the church since
sented, the law applied, and a vous at home and not attend- the Vatican had reports from “For too long Catholic in- The church also acknowl-
fair verdict rendered.” ing church.” authoritative cardinals dat- stitutions have been self-po- edged that it had made pre-
McCarrick faces three counts ing to 1999 that McCarrick’s licing while making pledges viously undisclosed finan-
of indecent assault and bat- The man said that the two behavior was problematic, and promises without action. cial settlements with adults
tery on a person over 14, ac- of them went for a walk yet he became an influential McCarrick should be behind who accused McCarrick of
cording to documents filed in around campus and McCar- cardinal, kingmaker and em- bars for his crimes,” Ander- sexual misconduct decades
the Dedham District Court rick groped him before they issary of the Holy See’s “soft son said. ago. It was apparently com-
on Wednesday. went back to the party. The diplomacy.” mon knowledge in the U.S.
man said McCarrick also Of the thousands of Catholic and Vatican leadership that
Barry Coburn, an attorney sexually assaulted him in a It led to a two-year investiga- clergymen implicated in sex- “Uncle Ted,” as McCarrick
for McCarrick, told The As- “coat room type closet” after tion that found that bishops, ual abuse in recent decades, was known, slept with semi-
sociated Press that they “look they returned to the recep- cardinals and popes down- McCarrick was distinctive narians, and yet he still he as-
forward to addressing the tion, authorities wrote in the played or dismissed multiple in having reached the high- cended up the church ranks.

Violent arrest in Colorado reignites anger over policing

(AP) — A video showing a shows Haubert hold his pis- of ketamine by paramed- always like ‘If you come into son’s treatment as a “very de-
police officer pistol-whip- tol to Vinson’s head, strike ics. McClain died less than a Aurora, you leave on proba- spicable act.”
ping and choking a Black him with it, choke him and week later. tion.’ Period. They don’t feel
man during an arrest in a threaten to shoot him. safe.” Rathod praised her for trying
Denver suburb has reig- No officers were charged to change the department but
nited anger over policing “You’re killing me,” Vinson in that case but Democratic Police Chief Vanessa Wil- blamed Mayor Mike Coff-
in the community, with cried, gasping for air, as Hau- Gov. Jared Polis asked Attor- son called Vinson’s case an man for not denouncing
activists decrying what bert holds him down, the ney General Phil Weiser to “anomaly” on Tuesday and what happened or apologiz-
they say is just the latest video shows. “If you move, reinvestigate whether anyone asked the public not to paint ing to Vinson. He called on
example of the mistreat- I will shoot you,” Haubert should be prosecuted after the department “with a broad Coffman to resign.
ment of people of color. said. the case drew renewed atten- brush.” She put the officers
tion following the killing of on leave and denounced Vin-
Aurora Officer John Haubert The footage angered activists George Floyd. The investiga-
was arrested on suspicion of on Wednesday. They want to tion is still pending.
attempted first-degree as- bring attention to a police de-
sault, second-degree assault partment plagued by allega- Last year, the Police Depart-
and felony menacing charges, tions of misconduct in recent ment also came under fire for
after officers responded Fri- years, including the 2019 an incident where four Black
day to a trespassing report death of Elijah McClain. girls were handcuffed and or-
where they found Kyle Vin- dered face down in a parking
son, who is biracial and iden- McClain was walking down a lot after a stolen car mix-up.
tifies as Black. street in the city east of Den-
ver in August 2019 when he “This isn’t about just Eli-
Haubert’s lawyer, Reid Elkus, was stopped by local police jah or just about Kyle. This
has vowed to “zealously de- after a 911 call reported a sus- is about the community at
fend” him. Another officer is picious man. The 23-year- whole,” said Lindsay Minter,
accused of not intervening to old Black man was wrestled a high school track coach and
try to stop him. to the ground, put into a member of the city’s police
neckhold and injected with task force. “When I talk to
The body camera footage 500 milligrams (0.02 ounces) the kids that I coach, they’re