DEDHAM, Mass.
— A judge ruled Wednesday that a 93-year-old former Roman Catholic cardinal is not competent to stand trial after both prosecutors and defense attorneys determined he suffers from dementia, and dismissed charges he sexually assaulted a teenage boy in Massachusetts decades ago.
“It’s not just that he currently has these deficits,” Nelligan said. “There is no way they are going to get better.” The once-powerful American prelate faced charges that he abused the teenage boy at a wedding reception at Wellesley College in 1974. At that time, lawyers said McCarrick had a “limited understanding” of the criminal proceedings against him.
“In spite of the criminal court’s decision today,” Garabedian said following Wednesday's hearing, “many clergy sexual abuse victims feel as though former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is and will always be the permanent personification of evil within the Catholic Church.”
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