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Posted: Jul 22, 2020 / 02:28 PM EDTUpdated: Jul 22, 2020 / 06:28 PM EDTThis is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.NEWARK, N.J. — Theodore McCarrick, the former Roman Catholic Cardinal who was stripped of all titles and his priesthood last year, was named in a lawsuit filed Tuesday as “the Boss” in a clergy sex ring that allegedly abused minor boys at a Jersey Shore home in the early 1980s.The charges were leveled by “John Doe 14” — a man now in his early 50s — who said in the legal claim that he was “procured” by a Catholic brother at his high school for then-Bishop McCarrick and his priest friends in 1981.Doe 14 said a sex ring of seminarians and priests abused him at McCarrick’s beach house in Seagirt, when McCarrick was bishop of Metuchen.“And in the night, these priests and McCarrick would creep into this kid’s bed,” attorney Jeff Anderson said.“There are at least seven minors that were groomed for McCarrick by others,” Anderson said during a Wednesday press conference.McCarrick was initially accused of sex abuse in 2018 by a former altar boy from St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York who said the Manhattan-born McCarrick had abused him nearly 50 years before — in 1969.There were also seminarians who filed complaints against McCarrick for alleged sexual abuse.McCarrick has denied all the claims, something Anderson addressed Wednesday.“He has publicly denied engaging in any sexual misconduct of kids, of seminarians,” Anderson said.Mark Crawford, the leader of New Jersey’s division of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, said he had gone to see McCarrick in the late 1990s, when McCarrick was leader of the Newark Archdiocese.Crawford said he told McCarrick one of the bishop’s top aides — while a parish priest — had sexually and emotionally abused him for several years, starting when he was 13.Crawford said he also wrote letters to cardinals around the United States and officials with the Vatican.Despite the allegations, McCarrick eventually became Archbishop of Washington, D.C. and was promoted to cardinal in 2001.Seventeen years later, when more allegations surfaced, Pope Francis accepted McCarrick’s resignation and then took away his titles in early 2019.It’s not clear where McCarrick, now 90, is currently living.The Newark Archdiocese told PIX11 it’s committed to working with victims of sexual abuse, but did not provide comment on McCarrick or the new allegations specifically.“It would be inappropriate to discuss or comment on matters in litigation,” a spokesperson said. “The Archdiocese of Newark remains fully committed to transparency and to our long-standing programs to protect the faithful and will continue to work with victims, their legal representatives and law enforcement authorities in an ongoing effort to resolve allegations and bring closure to victims.”PIX11 also reached out to the Metuchen Archdioceses for a response to the lawsuit.Suggest a Correction✕× Close Ad

Posted: Jul 22, 2020 / 02:28 PM EDTUpdated: Jul 22, 2020 / 06:28 PM EDTThis is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.NEWARK, N.J. — Theodore McCarrick, the former Roman Catholic Cardinal who was stripped of all titles and his priesthood last year, was named in a lawsuit filed Tuesday as “the Boss” in a clergy sex ring that allegedly abused minor boys at a Jersey Shore home in the early 1980s.The charges were leveled by “John Doe 14” — a man now in his early 50s — who said in the...

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