Prosecutors ‘forced’ to drop charges against predator priest

CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Sun-Times

WRITTEN BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN POSTED: 02/24/2016

Cook County prosecutors Wednesday said they were forced to drop an aggravated criminal sexual abuse charge against a convicted child molester and defrocked Catholic priest because the alleged victim was reluctant to cooperate.

Daniel McCormack, who is at a state-run mental health facility pending a hearing on whether he is a sexual deviant person, wasn’t in court before Judge Dennis Porter.

Neither was the alleged victim of the 2005 incidents.

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