CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Sun-Times
BY LEEANN SHELTON Staff Reporter August 14, 2012
Two men filed separate lawsuits Monday against the Archdiocese of Chicago, claiming now-defrocked priest Daniel McCormack abused them at a West Side parish nine years ago.
The lawsuits were filed in Cook County Circuit Court against the Archdiocese and Cardinal Francis George, and list the plaintiffs only as John Doe.
Both men, now in their early 20s, claim they first met McCormack at St. Agatha Catholic Church where he was a pastor and coach starting in September 2000, according to the suits.
One of the plaintiffs claims he was in seventh grade when McCormack first began inappropriately hugging and touching him. The boy, who worked in the parish’s after-school daycare program, claims the then-pastor began sexually abusing him two years later, in 2003.
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