Posted on 03/03/2023 5:55:54 PM PST by marshmallow
Boston, Mass., Feb 27, 2023 / 16:57 pm Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 92, filed a motion in a Massachusetts court claiming he is “legally incompetent” to stand trial for sex abuse charges, citing “significant, worsening, and irreversible dementia.”
McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over the age of 14 relating to allegations that he sexually abused the teenager who was a family friend at a wedding ceremony in the 1970s at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
McCarrick, laicized by Pope Francis in 2019, held one of the highest offices in the Catholic Church and has been accused of serially abusing his priestly authority by sexually abusing minors and seminarians.
The state of Massachusetts told CNA that it wants an opportunity to examine McCarrick’s competency to stand trial.
McCarrick’s motion to dismiss the charges comes about a month after his legal team said a neurological exam of him was being conducted by Dr. David Schretlen, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
That exam remains unavailable to the public, as Schretlen’s final report includes “extensive confidential information” about McCarrick’s health and personal life, and would be “harmful” to McCarrick if it were available to the public, one of McCarrick’s lawyers, Daniel Marx, said in a separate court document.
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How is what he did different than what trans/gender advocates want to do?
Dementia...”I don’t recall” worked for Hillary Clinton.
Thank goodness his dementia won’t prevent him from running for president.
He cant hide behind mental illness to get away with what he did.
Besides, he’s not a woman. No one will sympathize and defend him being mentally ill if he doesn’t have a v-card to play.
Burn in hell forever, sodomite.
I don’t think God is going to buy this defense.
Dementia won’t be an excuse in hell
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