Priest found guilty of child rape at Ipswich summer camp

By Gail Waterhouse
Fox Boston
November 12, 2014

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/27368271/priest-found-guilty-of-child-rape-at-ipswich-summer-camp

(MyFoxBoston.com) -- A priest from New York was convicted of child rape charges Wednesday related to the rape of a boy at a summer camp in Ipswich back in the 1980s.

Between 1981 and 1982, Rev. Richard McCormick, now 73 years old, repeatedly raped a boy while the boy attended a summer camp in Ipswich at the Salesian Brothers' Sacred Heart retreat center. McCormick worked at the center. McCormick was convicted on five charges of child rape following a trial that lasted four days.

The victim, now 44 years old, was between 10 and 12 years old when the rapes took place. McCormick is also facing another charge of child rape related to another male victim who attended the same summer camp at the same time as the first victim. A trial date for that charge has not yet been set.

Mitchell Garabedian, the victim's lawyer, said in a statement that his "client has empowered himself and made the world a safer place for children." Garabedian also claimed that McCormick, "from 1986 to 1991 was Provincial or the head of the Salesians and sexually abused 16 of my clients from about 1963 to about 1994."