A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dismissed a criminal case charging former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick with molesting a 16-year-old boy in 1974, saying the 93-year-old was not competent to stand trial after psychological experts found he had dementia.

McCarrick, a former archbishop of Washington, D.C., who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019, became the only current or former U.S. Catholic cardinal to ever face child sex abuse charges when prosecutors in Massachusetts first charged him in 2021.

He was charged in April in a separate, ongoing criminal sexual assault case in Wisconsin involving the same alleged victim, who prosecutors said was fondled by McCarrick when he was 18 years old while staying as a guest at a cabin in 1977.

  • @SulaymanF
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    1 year ago

    What a limited mindset. Justice happens after death.

    • themeatbridge
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      241 year ago

      That’s a comforting lie people tell themselves to avoid the ugly truth that most crimes go unpunished. The only justice that exists is what we create on earth while alive.

    • @NotBillMurray
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      121 year ago

      Oh, that’s nice then. I’d love to know, one, how you can know that not being dead yourself, and two, how that’s supposed to make anyone feel better seeing as he fucked up the lives of people who are still alive.

      • tider06
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        101 year ago

        His source: “Trust me, bro.”

    • @Nutteman
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      101 year ago

      If we are making things up, I get my hog sucked by Anya Taylor Joy after death.

    • @Son_of_dad
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      11 year ago

      How convenient. Since nobody can verify that