CHICAGO (IL)
Digital Journal
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 26, 2014
Mark A. Brown, an attorney at Lane & Lane, LLC, has reached a settlement with the Chicago Archdiocese in a sexual abuse case involving a now 24-year-old male and a former priest and school teacher (1). As stated in the case, the victim was a student at Our Lady of the Westside School where the former priest, Father Daniel McCormack, was a teacher during the 2000–2001 school year (1). Now 24 years old, the “John Doe” client received between $1.68 and $2.1 million in a settlement that was reached before the case could go to trial in September 2014 (1).
Father McCormack served as pastor of Saint Agatha’s Catholic Church and Our Lady of the Westside School from 2000-2006 (2). However, the lawsuit alleged that the Archdiocese was aware of McCormack’s past history of sexual misconduct stemming back to his time in seminary years before–yet still chose to place him in ministry service among youth (1).
In 2007, McCormack pleaded guilty to sexually molesting five other boys, and served time in prison for those crimes (3). He continues to be confined while a petition to keep him committed to state custody under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act is considered by a Cook County judge (4).
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