PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Express-News
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Opening statements are set to start Thursday in the Philadelphia trial of a priest arrested after his accuser followed child sex-assault trials involving Penn State and the Roman Catholic church.
The accuser says he was sexually assaulted after Mass in 1997 by the Rev. Andrew McCormick.
McCormick was suspended from the Philadelphia archdiocese over a less serious allegation when he was arrested in 2012.
The 57-year-old priest’s lawyer says the charges stem from one encounter with a lone accuser.
Philadelphia prosecutors have been investigating priest-abuse reports in Philadelphia for a decade, and have gained several sex-abuse convictions.
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