The three men were among a list of 188 clergy members in New Jersey accused of sexual misconduct, NJ.com reported. The victim claims he was also abused at the beach house by priests Gerald Ruane, Michael Walters and John Laferrera. Some of the other boys who were allegedly brought to McCarrick’s home were “assigned to different rooms and paired with adult clerics,” according to the complaint. Other priests allegedly served as part of a “crew” of procurers of young boys for then-Bishop McCarrick, who “assigned sleeping arrangements, choosing his victims from the boys, seminarians and clerics present at the beach house,” the suit says. “In the night, with the assistance of others, McCarrick would creep into this kid’s bed and engage in criminal sexual assault of him, whispering, ‘It is OK,'” Jeff Anderson, the attorney for the now-53-year-old victim, said at a virtual press conference Wednesday. The victim - “Doe 14” - says the alleged abuse began when he was 14 during overnight stays at McCarrick’s Sea Girt home in 1982. Unholy creep: Ex-cardinal charged with molesting teen boyĪlleging sex abuse, 4 sue Vatican over handling of McCarrickĭisgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick allegedly ran a sex ring out of his New Jersey beach house - where one victim claims he was molested by him and three other priests, according to a new lawsuit. The suit accuses McCarrick of sexual battery and the archdiocese of negligence, and seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.Archdiocese of Newark could pay in ex-cardinal's sex abuse case: judgeįormer Cardinal McCarrick pleads not guilty to molesting 16-year-old boy "I felt like telling my story would be helpful.” “I really thought about the power of having a voice,” Reading said. In his statement Tuesday, Reading said several factors influenced him to file the lawsuit, including the lack of response from the Newark archdiocese and seeing reports about McCarrick's court appearance in Massachusetts. Catholic cardinal ever to be charged with child sex crimes, and he pleaded not guilty in a court appearance in early September. In a separate case in Massachusetts, the now-91-year-old McCarrick recently became the only U.S. He was defrocked in 2019 after a Vatican investigation determined he sexually abused minors, as well as adults. Like Reading's, some of the accusations involve activities at a New Jersey shore house used by McCarrick and other clerics.Īfter serving in Newark, McCarrick was archbishop of Washington, D.C., and became one of the highest-ranking, most visible Roman Catholic officials in the United States. McCarrick faces several abuse lawsuits in New Jersey that cover the time when he was Bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen, in central New Jersey, and the archbishop of the Newark archdiocese. A spokesperson for the archdiocese didn't comment on the lawsuit but said the archdiocese is “fully committed to our comprehensive programs and protocols to protect the faithful and to working with survivors of abuse, their legal representatives and law enforcement authorities in an ongoing effort to resolve allegations of past abuse.” The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, as Reading has done.Īn attorney representing McCarrick declined comment Tuesday. “That was probably the most disappointing thing, that I never heard anything and got no response from the church,” Reading said in the statement. In a videotaped statement, Reading said he wrote a letter to Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark, three years ago about the alleged abuse but never heard back. The suit names McCarrick and the Newark archdiocese and also alleges Reading was abused in 1978 by Father Edward Eilert, a priest employed by the Newark archdiocese. The claim comes as a two-year window nears completion in New Jersey for people to file abuse lawsuits regardless of how far back the alleged abuse occurred. In the lawsuit filed in state court and announced Tuesday, Michael Reading alleged McCarrick engaged in sexual contact with him in 1986 while on a trip to the New Jersey shore, around the same time McCarrick ordained Reading as a priest. Defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is facing another sexual abuse lawsuit, from a man who claims McCarrick abused him in the 1980s in New Jersey.
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