Ex-Cardinal McCarrick, 91, pleads not guilty to sex assault

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Former U.S. Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has pleaded not blameworthy to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old lad during a wedding reception successful Massachusetts astir 50 years ago. The 91-year-old McCarrick was heckled by a protester arsenic helium arrived but said thing during a little quality successful suburban Boston’s Dedham District Court. McCarrick is the lone existent oregon erstwhile U.S. Catholic cardinal to ever beryllium criminally charged with kid enactment crimes. An lawyer for McCarrick says they are “looking guardant to addressing the allegations successful court” and would person nary different contiguous comment. Pope Francis defrocked McCarrick successful 2019 aft a Vatican investigation.