PHILADELPHIA (PA)
CBS Philly
Steve Tawa
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A jury has heard opening statements in a sexual assault case against a Philadelphia priest, nearly a year after another jury was deadlocked after four days of deliberations, and a mistrial was declared.
KYW’s Steve Tawa reports testimony will begin in the morning in the new trial against the same defendant.
Assistant District Attorney Kristen Kemp told jurors “no 41-year-old adult has a right to touch a child like Father Andrew McCormick did to a 10-year-old altar boy in 1997.”
The defendant is now 59 and the alleged victim, who will take the stand again, is 28.
Kemp says the defendant, known as Father Andy lured the boy up to his 2nd floor room in the rectory at St John Cantius in the Bridesburg section, and the alleged victim was “ashamed, in shock, and too young to understand what happened.”
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