Priest again facing charges that he sexually abused altar boy

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 10/4/2012 | Mensah M. Dean

[Dr. Thorne]

A PHILADELPHIA judge Tuesday reinstated three felony charges against a Catholic priest who is accused of forcing oral sex on a 10-year-old altar boy in 1997.

Father Andrew McCormick sat stoically at the defense table as Common Pleas Judge Paula Patrick held him for trial after a brief hearing on involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault and statutory sexual assault.

[JoeFromSidney]

Only two percent of all priests have been charged with molestation, and one by one they are being punished. Two-thirds of the bishops shuffled the molesters around, yet none of them have been charged with anything. The only punishment was payments totaling millions of dollars, all of which came out of the pockets of the laity who had done nothing wrong.

We need to see some mitres falling.