Posted on 08/30/2023 5:41:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The once-powerful Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick will not stand trial on charges he sexually assaulted a teenage boy decades ago, as a Massachusetts judge dismissed the case against the 93-year-old on Wednesday because both prosecutors and defense attorneys agree he suffers from dementia.
McCarrick, the ex-archbishop of Washington, D.C., was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after an internal Vatican investigation determined he sexually molested adults as well as children. The McCarrick scandal created a crisis of credibility for the church, primarily because there was evidence Vatican and U.S. church leaders knew he slept with seminarians but turned a blind eye as McCarrick rose to the top of the U.S. church as an adept fundraiser who advised three popes.
During Wednesday's hearing, Dr. Kerry Nelligan, a psychologist hired by the prosecution, said she found significant deficits in McCarrick’s memory during two interviews in June, and he was often unable to recall what they had discussed from one hour to the next. As with any form of dementia, she said there are no medications that could improve the symptoms.
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He might have escaped punishment on this life, but I’m sure his place in hell is waiting
He is NOT Theodore Cardinal McCarrick.
He has been stripped of all his titles, deposed from office, expelled from ministry, and turned over to the secular authorities.
He gets away with his crimes because he now has dementia. Hopefully not in the next world.
I remember 20 plus years ago, my parish priest in the Archdiocese of Washington reading a statement from McCarrick promising not to use the funds from a special appeal to pay victims of Diocesan sexual abuse. Of course the unsaid part; the appeal was to replace the money the Diocese had paid its victims.
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