Defrocked Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Charged with 1977 Sexual Assault

The then-18-year-old victim said McCarrick and Cardinal Joseph Bernardin attacked him on Geneva Lake, Wisconsin

Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, speaks during a news conference with senators and national religious leaders at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Dec. 8, 2015. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

MADISON, Wis.—Theodore McCarrick, the defrocked cardinal archbishop emeritus of Washington, is charged in Wisconsin with the fourth-degree sexual assault of an 18-year-old man in 1977.

McCarrick, 92, of Hyattsville, Md., was charged in a criminal complaint filed on April 14 in Walworth County, about 60 miles southeast of Madison.