CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Tribune
By Carlos Sadovi
Tribune reporter
7:56 p.m. CDT, May 21, 2014
A defrocked priest who had been convicted of abusing several children at his West Side parish was arrested today after a warrant was issued regarding a new allegation stemming from a 2005 incident, police said.
Daniel McCormack, who pleaded guilty in 2007 to multiple counts of criminal sexual assault and was sentenced to five years in prison, was taken into custody after a warrant for aggravated criminal sexual abuse was served, according to Chicago police. He was being processed, police said.
McCormack, 45, pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse to children under the age of 13, according to Illinois Department of Corrections.
According to court records, the latest warrant was issued by Cook County Criminal Court Judge Mary Margaret Brosnahan on May 16. According to records, the address given for McCormack was the Illinois Department of Human Services Treatment and Detention Facility in Rushville.
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