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Chicago Sun-Times
Mitchell Armentrout
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The Archdiocese of Chicago was hit with another lawsuit Friday over alleged abuses committed by convicted child molester and defrocked priest Daniel McCormack.
The plaintiff, identified as John JW Doe, says he was about 10 when McCormack began sexually abusing him in 2002 at the West Side St. Agatha parish, according to the suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court. The abuse continued through 2005, the suit claims.
“The Archdiocese has not seen this lawsuit and does not comment on ongoing litigation, however, Daniel J. McCormack is no longer a priest,” an archdiocese spokeswoman said in an email Friday night. “He was removed from public ministry in February of 2006 and laicized (removed from the priesthood) in November 2007. No priest with even one substantiated allegation of sexual abuse of a minor serves in ministry in the Archdiocese of Chicago today.”
McCormack pleaded guilty in 2007 to abusing five other children at St. Agatha’s. He was sentenced to five years in prison and has been staying at a state-run mental health facility since his release from prison in 2009. A new set of criminal charges was filed against him in 2014.
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