Jul 2, 2008 7:53 PM (3 hrs ago) By KASEY JONES, AP » 3 hrs ago: Priest charged in Maryland with child abuse « ) - A Roman Catholic priest who was accused in a civil suit of molesting an altar boy seven years ago was charged Wednesday with abusing the youth in 2001 and 2002, police and a lawyer said. The Rev. Aaron Joseph Cote, 56, who has been living in New York City, turned himself in to Montgomery County Police in Rockville Tuesday night. He is charged with custodian child abuse and is being held on $250,000 bond. Police did not know who his lawyer is. According to police, the accuser says he was attending Mother Seton parish in Germantown when he was 14 and Cote was serving part time as youth minister. The former altar boy said that for about a year starting during the summer of 2001, Cote took him to an apartment in...
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