SOUTH CAROLINA
Live 5 News
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By Ray Rivera, Digital Producer
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) –
A New York priest has been charged with sexually assaulting children at a Charleston church 35 years ago.
Freddy Washington appeared in bond court on Thursday in connection to accusations that he sexually assaulted two children at the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church on St. Phillip Street where he worked as a volunteer in the early 1980s.
According to Washington’s lawyer, his client who is a priest at St. Mark the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in Harlem, has been put on sabbatical by the church.
“When he was notified of these charges through the necessary process he volunteered to come here,” said Washington’s lawyer Eduardo Curry.”Because he believes he is innocent and did not commit these charges.”
Washington has been charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct under the age of 11 and lewd act on a child under the age of 14.
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