MASSACHUSETTS/NEW YORK
Digital Journal
By Greta McClain
Sep 1, 2012
Salem – Another New York priest finds himself in the middle of a controversy, the second in less then a week. Father Richard McCormick appeared in Salem Superior Court Friday, pleading not guilt to five counts of child rape.
McCormick, who now lives in New Rochelle, N.Y., was arrested Thursday by Ipswich Police on an indictment warrant for five counts of rape of a child WCVB reports. McCormick was held on $1,000 bond.
The alleged rapes occurred in1981 and 1982 at the Sacred Heart Retreat House summer camp for boys in Ipswich MA. The camp was run by McCormick. According to NECN.com, Assistant Distinct Attorney General Kate MacDougall told the judge the victim alleges McCormick would sometimes get him from his bed in the camp dorms. The victim told law enforcement officials the abuse only stopped when he would hide in the woods or under his older brother’s bunk at night.
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