CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Tribune
By Manya Brachear Pashman, Chicago Tribune reporter
December 12, 2013
A 27-year-old Chicago man on Wednesday became the first person to identify himself in a sex abuse allegation against former Roman Catholic priest and convicted sex offender Daniel McCormack.
Darryl McArthur, who like all of McCormack’s accusers is African-American, filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court and said he wanted to combat “the culture of secrecy” involving sexual abuse.
“I respect the privacy of any individual who wants to put their name (as John Doe) … because it’s a lot to deal with,” McArthur said. “I feel as though me being a young African-American male I can raise awareness not only … of childhood sexual abuse but especially my culture. Where I come from there’s a sworn secrecy of ‘Don’t tell.'”
The lawsuit alleges that the abuse started in 1994 at St. Ailbe Parish, in the Calumet Heights neighborhood, shortly after McCormack was ordained and began his first assignment.
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