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Defrocked Cardinal McCarrick Accused Of Leading Sex Ring At Jersey Shore Beach House Defrocked Cardinal McCarrick Accused Of Leading Sex Ring At Jersey Shore Beach House
Defrocked Cardinal McCarrick Accused Of Leading Sex Ring At Jersey Shore Beach House The 90-year-old defrocked former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick stands accused of running a sex ring out of his Jersey Shore beach house in Sea Girt. One victim claims in a lawsuit that he was molested by McCarrick and three other priests during overnight stays at the then-Bishop's home in Monmouth County, the New York Post reports. Last year, Pope Francis defrocked McCarrick after a church investigation found he sexually abused minors and adult seminarians.  The suit was filed Tuesday night in New Jersey Superior Court in Middlesex County against the Diocese of Metuchen, the Archdi…

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LAWSUIT: Ex-Cardinal McCarrick Abused Boy At Hackensack Church In 1990s LAWSUIT: Ex-Cardinal McCarrick Abused Boy At Hackensack Church In 1990s
Lawsuit: Ex-Cardinal McCarrick Abused Boy At Hackensack Church In 1990s A man is accusing former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of assaulting him as a teen at a Hackensack church in a lawsuit filed Monday under newly-enacted New Jersey law. John Bellocchio was a 14-year-old altar boy at the St. Francis of Assisi when the alleged incident occurred, NJTV News reports. Now 37, Bellocchio claims the church covered up his case and others. "He never would have been able to do the things he did and rise up the ranks the way he did without their complicity or consent, implied or otherwise," Bellocchio said at a news conference. A law that was passed in Ne…

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by Cecilia Levine