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The former archbishop of Washington D.C., Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, is facing a new allegation of sexual abuse. A now 60-year-old Virginia man, identified as James by several news outlets, says McCarrick abused him for nearly 20 years, starting when he was just 11 years old.

McCarrick was suspended last month by the Vatican, which said it had received a credible allegation that he had sexually abused a 16-year-old altar boy in New York decades ago. Since then, four additional accusations have surfaced.

In a statement last week, the Archdiocese of Newark and the Diocese of Metuchen said they had received three allegations of sexual misconduct against adult men in decades past.

The New York Times was the first outlet to report on the most recent allegation.

James says McCarrick was a close family friend—so much so that he grew up calling the man ‘Uncle Ted.’ The abuse reportedly began when McCarrick walked in on an 11-year-old James changing out of his bathing suit in his family’s New Jersey home, and continued well into James’s adulthood, according to the New York Times.

“I was the first guy he baptized,” James said in an interview with the Associated Press. “I was his little boy. I was his special kid. I was the kid he always sought out.”

James told the outlets that he recently reported his allegations to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.

The three other allegations surfaced shortly after McCarrick’s suspension last month, and they all involve young adult seminarians or priests who were under McCarrick’s tutelage when in New Jersey, according to The Washington Post.

Two settlements involve young adult seminarians who report that McCarrick touched them inappropriately after setting up trips to hotel rooms where there was only one bed, forcing a situation in which the young man would have to sleep with him, reports the Post.

A Brazilian priest also reportedly filed a complaint against McCarrick in 2011, stating that he had been invited to a beach house in the 1990s and coerced into performing sex acts. The priest later withdrew his complaint, according to the Post.

McCarrick denied the initial allegations against him. In a statement after the original allegations were reported, he said: “While I have absolutely no recollection of this reported abuse, and believe in my innocence, I am sorry for the pain the person who brought the charges has gone through, as well as for the scandal such charges cause our people.”

Following the first accusation, the Archdiocese of Washington said that it conducted a review of its records and that it found no claims of abuse, credible or otherwise, during his time serving in the city.

The Bishop of Metuchen, James Checcio, also said in a statement last month that the “very disturbing report” of abuse prompted him to examine the Diocese’s records, and there has been no report of McCarrick engaging in abusive behavior with children during his time there—only adults. “The abuse of anyone who is vulnerable is both shameful and horrific. The abuse of a minor by a priest—as is being reported in this case from New York—is an abomination and sickens and saddens us all,” Checchio said in the statement.

McCarrick is the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic clergy member to be removed from his role over a sex abuse allegation, according to the Washington Post. As a cardinal, McCarrick was among the highest-ranking members of the church in the world; the only position above cardinal is the pope.

The allegation that resulted in his suspension reportedly occurred when he was a priest in New York in 1971 and 1972. McCarrick served as the bishop of Metuchen from 1982 to 1986, and the archbishop of Newark from 1986 to 2000. He was the archbishop of of Washington from 2001 to 2006, when he retired at the mandatory age of 75. But, also according to The Washington Post, he has retained an important and active role in the church as a Cardinal until last month’s allegations.

After the church sex abuse scandal broke in 2002, by which time he had been archbishop of D.C. for a year, McCarrick was also a national figurehead pushing for stricter reporting policies against priests who have been accused of sexual abuse, The Post reports.

He was popular in Washington, and he still lives in the area.

“He became this public figure,” John Gehring, an author who worked for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told The Post when McCarrick was first suspended. “He’d be at a social justice rally. You’d see him on the Metro. I was always struck by that simplicity. He was a Pope Francis bishop before there was a Pope Francis. . . . He was this global prince of the church, but he understood the local church.”

But James has described how the alleged abuse altered the course of his life.

“What he did to me was he ruined my entire life. I couldn’t break the hold. I couldn’t live up to my ability — to stay employed, married, have children. I lost all those opportunities because of him,” James told the Washington Post. “I try to be a really good kid every day.”