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By then, James said, Father McCarrick had begun abusing him sexually. When he was 13, he said, the priest first touched his penis. At 14, he said, Father McCarrick masturbated him in a beach parking lot. When he was 15, James said, Father McCarrick took him to a restaurant in San Francisco, the Tonga Room, and poured vodka in his drinks. He then brought him back to his hotel room and masturbated him and brought himself to orgasm, James said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was absolutely disgusted, afraid,\u201d James said. \u201cI felt fear. What have I done?”<\/p>\n
On visits to the East Coast, James, then 16 or 17, said he would go with other boys with Father McCarrick to a fishing camp in Eldred, N.Y., identical to the one described by adult seminarians who said McCarrick abused them there. On these visits, they would sleep together naked, James said, and Father McCarrick would touch him.<\/p>\n
When James turned 18, he joined the Navy, and was stationed outside Chicago. When Father McCarrick, who became a bishop in 1977, was in town, he would call James to his hotel. When James was transferred to San Diego, Bishop McCarrick would invite him to the Beverly Hills Hilton in Los Angeles, James said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe introduced me to the most incredible people in the whole wide world,\u201d James said, adding that the bishop introduced him as his nephew. \u201cBob Hope. I met the scarecrow from the \u2018Wizard of Oz.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
James described repeated sexual touching that always stopped short of intercourse. There was no kissing, no holding hands, which is also how the adult seminarians had described their alleged abuse. Like James, they said the bishop called himself \u201cUncle Ted\u201d and them his \u201cnephews.\u201d<\/p>\n
James left the Navy in 1980, he said, and moved back to the East Coast. He said he would sometimes stay overnight with Bishop McCarrick in the rectory in Metuchen, N.J., and later in Newark, after Bishop McCarrick was promoted to archbishop in 1986.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By then, James said he was drinking heavily and doing drugs, habits that began in his teenage years. He said he tried to dissociate himself from the archbishop in 1985, after meeting a woman he went on to marry.<\/p>\n
The last time he visited Archbishop McCarrick, in 1989, he asked for money, he said; McCarrick refused, and never called him again. By then, James was 31.<\/p>\n
Instead of feeling relief, James said, he spiraled downward. \u201cI am done,\u201d he said. \u201cHe has thrown me away.\u201d<\/p>\n
His marriage fell apart, and in 1991, he said, he attempted suicide. He landed in detox and has been sober since, he said.<\/p>\n
Through his life, James said, he only told a few people that the priest had abused him. His younger brother. His uncle, Cardinal McCarrick\u2019s former friend, now deceased, who advised him to take the secret to his grave. As James became sober, he also told his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor and a therapist, he said.<\/p>\n
But now James wants to take action against Cardinal McCarrick, to give courage to others who might have been abused, and to find some justice for himself, he said.<\/p>\n
His lawyer, Mr. Noaker, said that James\u2019s police report will be forwarded to sex crimes investigators in San Francisco, New Jersey and possibly New York. He provided The Times with a copy of the report\u2019s receipt, dated Monday. The statute of limitations on child sex abuse crimes may block criminal charges or civil lawsuits, but Mr. Noaker is hopeful. He will also seek compensation from the church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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James\u2019s sister, Karen, said that she was horrified and surprised when he told her in late June that the cardinal had abused him. She recalled how she had attended Bishop McCarrick\u2019s installation as archbishop of Washington in 2000 as part of his official entourage. \u201cWe were part of a superstar\u2019s life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
But she said she believed James \u201c100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy brother has had such a horrible life,\u201d she said, \u201cit just doesn\u2019t make any sense, that his life would have been so different from his six siblings. Father Ted was supposed to fix this horrible boy, and he sure fixed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
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