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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – CRIMINAL TRIAL TO BEGIN

Road to Recovery
November 4, 2014

http://www.road-to-recovery.org/

Rev. Richard McCormick, S.D.B, former head (Provincial) of the Salesian Fathers and Brothers Eastern American Province, based in New Rochelle, NY, is scheduled to go on trial today November 4, 2014, at 9:30 AM in Essex County Superior Court, Criminal Division, in Lawrence, MA for the sexual abuse of a minor boy who is now an adult.

Fr. Richard McCormick is a serial sexual abuser of young boys. In 2009, the Salesian Fathers and Brothers settled a sexual abuse case of three men who claimed that Fr. Richard McCormick sexually abused them at the Marian Shrine in Stony Point, New York. More than ten separate claims alleging that Fr. Richard McCormick sexually abused minor boys have been settled.

In the current sexual abuse case against Fr. Richard McCormick, one man has alleged that he was sexually abused as a child by Fr. McCormick at Camp Salesian in Ipswich, MA which was operated by the Salesian Fathers and Brothers. Fr. Richard McCormick’s criminal trial is set to begin November 4, 2014 at Essex County Superior Court in Lawrence, MA.

Contact: Robert M. Hoatson, Ph.D., Co-founder and President, Road to Recovery, Inc., a non-profit charity based in New Jersey that assists victims of sexual abuse and their families. Road to Recovery is advocating on behalf of several sexual abuse victims of Fr. Richard Mc Cormick.

Contact: roberthoatson@gmail.com




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