Judge denies motion to dismiss charges against priest

MASSACHUSETTS
The Salem News

May 22, 2014

BY JULIE MANGANIS
STAFF WRITER

IPSWICH — A Salem Superior Court judge has denied a motion to dismiss some of the charges against a retired Roman Catholic priest charged with molesting two boys decades ago at a summer camp run by the Salesian Brothers of Don Bosco in Ipswich.

The Rev. Richard McCormick, 73, is facing allegations of child rape involving two now-grown victims who attended the camp in the early 1980s.

Last month, McCormick’s attorney, Stephen Neyman, argued that the testimony from one of the two men to a grand jury was not specific enough to warrant an indictment on child rape.

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