MADISON, Wis.—Theodore McCarrick, the defrocked cardinal archbishop emeritus of Washington, is charged in Wisconsin with the fourth-degree sexual assault of an 18-year-old man in 1977.
McCarrick, 92, of Hyattsville, Md., was charged in a criminal complaint filed on April 14 in Walworth County, about 60 miles southeast of Madison.
He is due to make an initial appearance in Walworth County Circuit Court in Elkhorn on June 26.
Stephen Brady, founder of Illinois-based Roman Catholic Faithful who has worked with Wisconsin authorities, told The Epoch Times the alleged assault victim is James Grein, 64, whose public testimony in 2018 helped lead to McCarrick’s downfall and eventual laicization by the Vatican….