Priest Is Charged With Child Abuse

Washington Post ^ | 3 July 2008 | Jacqueline L. Salmon

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A priest accused of abusing an altar boy in 2001 has been charged with child abuse after turning himself in to police Tuesday.

The Rev. Aaron Joseph Cote, 56, who was an associate pastor in 2001 and 2002 at Mother Seton parish in Germantown, had been accused of sexual abuse by the former altar boy, Brandon Rains, who filed a lawsuit against him in 2005.

Cote, who has been living in New York City, surrendered after learning that police would seek a warrant for his arrest. He pleaded not guilty.

"We do expect him to be fully exonerated," said Cote's attorney, Terrance McGann.

According to Montgomery County police, Cote had been counseling the boy while serving part time as youth minister at Mother Seton. In summer 2001, when the boy was 14 years old, police said, Cote took Rains to an apartment in Germantown and "engaged in inappropriate personal sexual activity in the victim's presence and inappropriate touching of the victim." The abuse allegedly continued for about one year.

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