MINNEAPOLIS (MN)
Fox9.com
December 29, 2018
By Alex Lehnert
[Video]
A Minneapolis attorney has found himself on the world stage in a case he believes is a first of its kind.
Patrick Noaker is currently fighting Vatican City and the Catholic Church in the hopes of justice for victims of sexual abuse.
It’s a Vatican trial set to determine the punishment for a former high-ranking Cardinal within the church.
Noaker says his client, James Grime, was sexually abused by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. The testimony happened this week and those documents will be taken straight to Vatican City.
Noaker has been practicing law for years, routinely defending victims of sexual abuse. He says this trial is unlike anything he’s ever experienced.
“It’s very formal, there is a lot of paperwork that goes with it,” Noaker said. “It has testimony like every other trial.”
His client, Grime, says he was sexually abused by the now ex-Cardinal when he was just 11 years old.
“So, McCarrick used to take him into another room, and the first thing he would have him do as part of the confession is he would touch him, improperly… sexually,” Noaker said.
Grime testified Thursday in front of a representative for the Vatican in New York. He recounted moments Noaker says have haunted him for years.
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