Cote faces sexual abuse charges in Maryland By KATHY THOMPSON • Staff Writer • July 3, 2008 SOMERSET - A priest who served at Holy Trinity Church in the late 1980s has been indicted on one count of custodian child abuse in Maryland. The Rev. Aaron Joseph Cote, 56, of the 100 block of East 65th Sreet in New York, turned himself in to police at the First District station in Rockville, Md., on Tuesday night, according to Melanie Hadley, public information officer for the police department. The abuse took place between 2001 and 2002 in Germantown, according to the Department of Police in Rockville. Cote had his bond of $250,000 cash posted Wednesday afternoon and will be released from the jail, according to his attorney, Terrance McGann. McGann had no further comment. The Dominican Order in New York refused to comment. Cote was...
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