sentences:  In July 2018, after publicity over a 50-year-old accusation that former Archbishop of Washington Theodore McCarrick had been accused of molesting a teenage boy, news came out that there were also many accusations and legal settlements in the three dioceses where McCarrick had served as ordinary that McCarrick had harassed and molested adult men in his seminary formation programs as well as young priests.Questions were presented in many news articles as to which of the bishops who served with McCarrick were aware and did nothing.Farrell is the highest ranking of these bishops, having been chosen in 2001 by McCarrick as an auxiliary bishop and then having served with McCarrick through the next six years in the leadership of the Archdiocese of Washington.