CHICAGO (IL)
NBC Chicago
[with video]
By MaryAnn Ahern | Thursday, Jan 30, 2014
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has settled a civil lawsuit filed in connection with the sexual abuse of a boy by a former priest.
The $3.1 million settlement Daniel McCormack and a 25-year-old man who was 13 at the time of the abuse.
The boy met McCormack at St. Agatha’s Church.
“He came from a difficult family and gravitated toward St. Agatha and Father McCormack because Father McCormack was his basketball coach, his friend, his priest, his mentor,” attorney William Martin said.
Attorneys say the abuse took place over a period of four years. The accused the archdiocese of failing to promptly remove Daniel McCormack after claims he abused children had emerged.
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