Judge rules ex-Chicago priest Daniel McCormack sexually violent

CHICAGO (IL)
ABC 7 Eyewitness News

September 9, 2017

By Sarah Schulte

Former Chicago priest Daniel McCormack was ruled sexually violent by a Cook County judge on Sept. 8, 2017.

A Cook County judge ruled Friday that former Chicago priest Daniel McCormack is a sexually violent person and should remain indefinitely in a state facility for sex offenders.

Judge Dennis Porter sided with state prosecutors seeking to prevent the convicted child molester from being released.

McCormack’s victims also wanted him to remain in custody.

“They know how dangerous he is, they know how cunning he is, how manipulative he is,” said Marc Pearlman, a attorney representing several of the victims.

In 2007, McCormack pleaded guilty to sexually abusing five boys while he was a priest at St. Agatha Parish on Chicago’s West Side, but court records show dozens of other boys alleged McCormack abused them as well.

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