{"id":82149,"date":"2023-02-27T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/ex-cardinal-mccarrick-asks-for-dismissal-of-sex-abuse-case-against-him-citing-dementia\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:57:00","slug":"ex-cardinal-mccarrick-asks-for-dismissal-of-sex-abuse-case-against-him-citing-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/ex-cardinal-mccarrick-asks-for-dismissal-of-sex-abuse-case-against-him-citing-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-cardinal McCarrick asks for dismissal of sex abuse case against him, citing dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>McCarrick\u2019s motion to dismiss the charges comes about a month after his legal team said a neurological exam of him was being conducted by Dr. David Schretlen, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>That exam remains unavailable to the public, as Schretlen\u2019s final report includes \u201cextensive confidential information\u201d about McCarrick\u2019s health and personal life, and would be \u201charmful\u201d to McCarrick if it were available to the public, one of McCarrick\u2019s lawyers, Daniel Marx, said in a separate court document.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are certain details from the report that were available in McCarrick\u2019s motion to dismiss the case, such as his consistently low performance scores on cognitive tests.<\/p>\n<p>The document says that McCarrick performed \u201cbelow expectation\u201d on nearly two-thirds of the cognitive tests administered to him. Quoting the report, the document says that he performed \u201cworse than 92% of reasonably healthy men of similar background and estimated premorbid on 38% of the cognitive measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report on McCarrick says that his \u201creported inability to retrieve memories of the alleged incident and potential witnesses\u201d and \u201cany exculpatory factors related to it\u201d are consistent with his performance on the exams and testimony from those who know him well, according to the document.<\/p>\n<p>Schretlen\u2019s report concluded that McCarrick has a \u201csevere cognitive disorder\u201d and \u201ceveryday functional disability\u201d that classifies as dementia and is most likely due to Alzeimer\u2019s disease, the document says.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '284567475785076');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\nCredit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/253756\/ex-cardinal-mccarrick-asks-for-dismissal-of-sex-abuse-case-against-him-citing-dementia\"target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCarrick\u2019s motion to dismiss the charges comes about a month after his legal team said a neurological exam of him was being conducted by Dr. David Schretlen, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. 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