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	Teen Settles with Archdiocese over Priest Abuse WBBM September 20, 2007 http://www.wbbm780.com/Teen-Settles-With-Archdiocese-Over-Priest-Abuse/973214 Chicago — The family of a teenage boy who says the Rev. Daniel McCormack molested him, has reached a settlement with the Chicago Archdiocese. The 15-year-old says McCormack sexually abused him on several occasions between 2001 and 2005 at St. Agatha Parish on the city's West Side, where the boy attended school. A settlement of $1.65 million, the boy's attorney said. McCormack pleaded guilty on July 2 to sexually abusing five boys — the youngest only 8, the oldest 11. He was sentenced to five years in prison. Prosecutors say the boys were fondled inside the rectory at St. Agatha, where he served as parish priest. They say the 38-year-old could have done the same thing in a classroom at our Lady of the Westside Presentation School's two campuses, where McCormack taught algebra and coached basketball. The five-year sentence he received was not enough to satisfy McCormack's critics either. Back in May, Francis Cardinal George said one of his biggest regrets was not having acted faster in the McCormack case. The year before he said: "Every time one hears of this, you're devastated. This is a cancer that eats away at all of us because in the church we're connected and in the society we're connected."
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