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Statesman Journal from The Record / NJ.com

July 23, 2020

By Abbott Koloff and Deena Yellin

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/23/catholic-cardinal-mccarrick-ran-sex-ring-nj-shore-lawsuit-alleges/5495453002/

A lawsuit filed Tuesday night accuses former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of taking his pick of boys to abuse sexually and assigning others to adult clerics at a New Jersey beach home that’s been central to previous allegations against the former prelate.

The man who brought the suit said in court papers that he was abused in the early 1980s by McCarrick and three priests at the home, which is in Sea Girt. McCarrick previously was accused of bringing adult seminarians to the home and sexually harassing them during overnight stays. Those allegations and others involving children led to McCarrick being defrocked last year, when he became the highest-ranking American Catholic official to be punished over accusations of sex abuse.

The suit alleges that the plaintiff was abused by two other…