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Former Central Jersey Altar Boy Says Defrocked Catholic Cardinal Molested Him Former Central Jersey Altar Boy Says Defrocked Catholic Cardinal Molested Him
Former Central Jersey Altar Boy Says Defrocked Catholic Cardinal Molested Him A former altar boy from Monmouth County has gone public with accusations of sex abuse as a child at the hands of defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Geoffrey Downs, now 53, said in a lawsuit that McCarrick invited him to stay at a Catholic diocese-owned Jersey Shore beach house when he was a teenager. In this interview with NJ.com, Downs said he never told his parents and continued serving as an altar boy until high school, when he was preparing for Mass with McCarrick. He claims that the cleric fondled him. “I was kind of frozen,” Downs said in the newspaper interview.  Last …

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