ILLINOIS
Chicago Tribune
Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas
The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has settled another lawsuit accusing defrocked priest Daniel McCormack of sexual abuse, this one for $2.3 million.
The settlement was reached with a man who claimed in a lawsuit that he was 12 when he was twice sexually abused by McCormack when the priest was assigned to St. Agatha’s Parish in Lawndale on the West Side.
The man, identified in the lawsuit as John Doe, was not a member of the parish but lived in the area and often went to a nearby basketball court to play pick-up games.
Doe said he was abused the first time before McCormack was arrested on Aug. 30, 2005 on suspicion of sexually abusing a different child, according to the lawsuit.
McCormack was allowed to return to St. Agatha’s and continue interacting with children, including on the basketball courts, according to the man’s attorney, Lyndsay Markley. That’s when the man was abused the second time, she said.
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