A NEW lawsuit reveals details of the alleged beach house pedophile ring run by disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
Court papers filed on Tuesday night claim that other priests procured at least seven children for McCarrick, who was once the most powerful Catholic leader in New Jersey.
McCarrick, 90, was expelled from the ministry in February 2019.
Attorneys described how McCarrick and other members of the clergy allegedly comprised a ring of sexual predation that lasted for decades.
The details emerged in a press conference on Wednesday.
The boys would be brought to McCarrick’s Jersey Shore beach house.
There, he “assigned sleeping arrangements, choosing his victims from the boys, seminarians and clerics present at the beach house,” according to NJ.com.
The plaintiff in the new lawsuit, who is now 53, is identified only as Doe 14.
“McCarrick would creep into this kid’s bed and engage in criminal sexual behavior and whisper, ‘It’s okay,’” said Jeff Anderson, an attorney representing Doe 14, according to NJ.com.
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<!--googleon: all-->Three other priests and clergy members were accused in the lawsuit of abusing Doe 14 at the beach house: Gerald Ruane, Michael Walters and John Laferrera.
Former Essex Catholic principal Brother Andrew Thomas Hewitt and former priest Anthony Nardino were accused in the lawsuit of abusing Doe 14 as well, though not necessarily in connection to the beach house.
Ruane and Hewitt are deceased, while Walters, Laferrera and Nardino are reportedly no longer with the ministry.
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