MASSACHUSETTS
Daily Journal
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: November 26, 2014
LAWRENCE, Massachusetts — A former high-ranking member of a Roman Catholic religious order has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for raping a boy at a Massachusetts summer camp in the 1980s.
The Rev. Richard McCormick, of New York, was also sentenced Wednesday in Lawrence Superior Court to 10 years of probation.
The 73-year-old former member Salesian Society of North America was convicted Nov. 12 of five counts of child rape that prosecutors said occurred between 1981 and 1982 at a youth camp in Ipswich run by the order.
The now 44-year-old victim testified that McCormick took him out of activities or woke him late at night to force him into sexual acts.
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