Ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick pleads not guilty to three counts of child sex assault; some in crowd outside yell, ‘Shame on you!’

By Kurt Shillinger

and 

Michelle Boorstein

 

Today at 9:55 a.m. EDT

DEDHAM, Mass. — Disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 91, in street clothes and standing with a walker, was arraigned Friday in a suburban Boston courtroom on three counts of criminal child sex abuse.

Some in the crowd outside, including survivors of other assaults, screamed at the former global power-broker: “Shame on you! Prince of the church!”

It was the first time the former Catholic archbishop of Washington had appeared in public since 2018, when his fall began amid a wave of sex abuse allegations. McCarrick was charged with sexually assaulting a teen in the 1970s, the first time a U.S. cardinal has faced a criminal charge of abuse.

McCarrick pleaded not guilty in the quick process. He was ordered to give up his passport and to stay away from people under the age of 18 as well as the victim.

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