CHICAGO (IL)
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Three men filed separate lawsuits in Cook County Circuit Court on Tuesday, each alleging that a convicted and defrocked priest sexually abused them as children at a West Side school.
The three suits claim that the Catholic Bishop of Chicago, the Archdiocese of Chicago and Cardinal George were negligent in the hiring and retention of former priest Daniel McCormack.
McCormack was arrested in January 2006 and removed from the priesthood in November 2007. He pleaded guilty that year to abusing five children while a parish priest at St. Agatha.
The identities of the three men—ages 18, 20 and 24—were all withheld in the lawsuits, though each alleged that McCormack abused them at some point between 2000 and 2005 while they were students at St. Agatha.
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