INDIANA
NWI Times
Sarah Reese sarah.reese@nwi.com, (219) 933-3351
A New York priest convicted Wednesday in Massachusetts of raping a boy multiple times in 1981 and 1982 also abused a Cedar Lake boy in 1975, the victims’ attorney said.
The Rev. Richard McCormick, 73, was convicted Wednesday of five counts of child rape in connection with crimes that occurred while the Massachusetts boy attended a summer camp at the Salesian Brothers’ Sacred Heart retreat center in Ipswich, Mass., where McCormick worked, prosecutors said.
McCormick was assigned to the Salesian Preparatory School in Cedar Lake from about 1972 to 1976, said attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who represents both victims. The school closed in 1979.
In 1975, McCormick took a then 14-year-old boy from Cedar Lake on a trip to Rome, where McCormick sexually abused the boy, Garabedian said.
McCormick never faced criminal charges in the case linked to Cedar Lake, he said.
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