(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 29 - Former American cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been indicted for pedophilia in Massachusetts. He is the highest prelate in the US who gets into trouble with justice for a case of sexual abuse of a minor. The Boston Globe reports it.
McCarrick was accused of sexually assaulting a boy who was 16 at the time. The abuse allegedly took place in the seventies, during a wedding reception at WellesleyCollege, a women's university in Massachusetts. The former cardinal, one of the most prominent prelates of the Catholic Church in the US, was reduced to the lay state in 2019 for homosexual abuse of adults and minors. In 2018 he was removed from the public ministry and then resigned from the college of cardinals. However, he had never so far ended up in trouble with criminal justice. (HANDLE).