PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Beaumont Enterprise
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jury selection is getting under way in a priest-abuse case prompted by news accounts of the Penn State and Philadelphia archdiocese sex-abuse trials.
The accuser says he contacted authorities in 2012 after seeing those child sex-abuse cases in the news.
He says that the Rev. Andrew McCormick fondled him and performed a sex act when he was an altar boy in northeast Philadelphia in 1997.
A judge had thrown out the most serious felony charges — sexual assault and deviant intercourse — after finding the accuser’s pretrial testimony did not match those crimes.
But prosecutors successfully appealed.
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