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NEW JERSEY –(77WABC)- A sexual abuse lawsuit has been filed in New Jersey from a man who claims Cardinal Theodore McCarrick abused him in the 1980s.
The Associated Press is reporting that Michael Reading alleged the Defrocked Cardinal engaged in sexual contact with him in 1986 while on a trip to the Jersey shore.
The claim comes as a two-year window nears completion in New Jersey for people to file abuse lawsuits no matter how far back the alleged abuse occurred.
The law suit names McCarrick and the Newark archdiocese and also alleges Reading was abused in 1978 by Father Edward Eilert, a priest in the Newark archdiocese.
The 91-year-old McCarrick recently became the only U.S. Catholic cardinal ever to be charged with child sex crimes, and he pleaded not guilty in a court appearance in Massachusetts in early September.
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