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New McCarrick allegations emerge
The ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been accused of sexual abuse by seven more men, taking the total number of accusations to at least nine. McCarrick (pictured) was dismissed from the clerical state by the Vatican earlier this year, after two allegations by men who say he abused them when they were boys.
Now seven men have come forward with similar stories, according to the Washington Post. One wrote an essay that was posted online under a pseudonym. He said that he had not planned to speak out until McCarrick stated in an interview that “I’m not as bad as they paint me” and “I do not believe that I did the things that they accused me of.”
