Daniel McCormack Trial Begins: Should Ex-Priest Be Imprisoned Indefinitely?

CHICAGO (IL)
DNAinfo

September 6, 2017

By Erica Demarest

Cook County Criminal Courthouse — A bench trial began Wednesday morning to determine whether Daniel McCormack should be imprisoned indefinitely.

The disgraced Catholic priest was convicted in 2007 of molesting five children during his time at St. Agatha Parish in North Lawndale. He was defrocked the same year and sentenced to five years in prison.

Shortly before McCormack was slated to be paroled in 2009, state prosecutors filed a petition seeking to imprison McCormack indefinitely under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act — which allows authorities to detain convicted sex offenders under the assumption they will strike again if free.

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