This week’s criminal charges against Mr. McCarrick, filed in Dedham District Court in Massachusetts, represent a new moment in victims’ efforts to hold church officials accountable. Mr. McCarrick, who now lives in Missouri, was charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person age 14 or over, and is expected to appear for arraignment on Sept. 3. Later, when they returned to the building where the reception was being held, Mr. McCarrick assaulted him — while praying — inside a coatroom, he said. Afterward, he said, Mr. McCarrick told him “to say three ‘our fathers’ and a Hail Mary” so he would be redeemed of his sins. Later that day, the man said, his father told him that he should listen to Mr. McCarrick and do what he told him.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2021 19:54 UTC