PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Daily Times
Published: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors have refiled felony sex-assault charges against a suspended Philadelphia priest, days after a judge dropped them for lack of evidence.
A city judge had found the victim’s testimony at a preliminary hearing last week failed to support the most serious charges against the Rev. Andrew McCormick. The judge upheld misdemeanor charges, including indecent exposure and indecent assault.
But prosecutors insist the 56-year-old priest’s actions amount to felony sexual assault.
The 25-year-old accuser says McCormick molested him at his rectory in 1997, when the boy was 10.
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