Sex abuse experts tell AP: Ex-cardinal’s letters to would-be priests he is accused of abusing show telltale grooming signs. He denies the accusations.
This July 2019 photo shows a detail from a copy of a 1987 letter written by then-Newark, N.J. Archbishop Theodore McCarrick to a seminarian in the state. The closing reads, "Love, Uncle Ted." Letters and postcards the clergyman wrote to three men he is accused of sexually abusing and harassing show how he groomed his victims, experts say.
Pope Francis defrocked McCarrick, 89, in February after a church investigation determined he sexually abused minors as well as adult seminarians. The case has created a credibility crisis for the Catholic hierarchy, since McCarrick’s misconduct was reported to some U.S. and Vatican higher-ups, but he nevertheless remained an influential cardinal until his downfall last year.
“If I didn’t go to see Theodore I was always going to be asked by my brothers and sisters or my dad, ‘Why didn’t you go see him?’” Former seminarians recounted how McCarrick would invite groups of young men for weekends fishing or at his beach house, always inviting one extra to force someone to share his bed. McCarrick later denied having ever had sexual relations with anyone but admitted to an “unfortunate lack of judgment” in sharing a bed with the men, according to a 2008 email to the Vatican.after he was named archbishop of Newark, N.J.
“We have an almost full house, and by tomorrow the couches and maybe the floor will be taken — but we would have made room even for a big guy like you,”In a sign of possible desperation, he added: “P.S. Do you even get my letters?” Jeglic said the reference to the mob hit was a shared, illicit experience that “bonds you in secrecy.”
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