PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
BY MENSAH M. DEAN
Philadelphia Daily News
Daily News Staff Writer
It took less than a week for the District Attorney’s Office to make good on a promise to refile felony charges against the latest Catholic priest accused of sexually molesting a child.
The refiled charges against Father Andrew McCormick, 56, were received Tuesday by the Court of Common Pleas.
Municipal Judge Karen Yvette Simmons held McCormick for trial on Aug. 16 on four misdemeanor charges related to an alleged incident with a 10-year-old altar boy in 1997 when he was a priest assigned to St. John Cantius Church in Bridesburg.
But Simmons caught the D.A.’s Office off guard when she dismissed the most serious felony charges: involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, which is oral sex with a child under age 13; sexual assault, oral sex without the victim’s consent; and statutory sexual assault, oral sex with a child under age 16 when the defendant is more than four years older.
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