Millions Settled in Priest Abuse Case
- Author Jennifer Hopkins
- Published March 23, 2017
- Word count 434
Two brothers who allege they were victims of sexual abuse by a former Catholic priest have settled their lawsuit for $2.7 million.
The brothers — who are identified as John Doe A and John Doe B in the lawsuit — sued the Archdiocese of Chicago in 2014, alleging it allowed Daniel McCormack to be ordained as a priest and placed him in a church to teach and mentor children despite having knowledge of prior sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Cardinal Francis George appointed McCormack to serve as pastor of St. Agatha’s Catholic Church and Our Lady of the Westside School in 2000 on the city’s West Side, a post in which McCormack served until 2005.
He was placed in the position despite the archdiocese’s knowledge that McCormack faced prior allegations of sexual abuse against both fellow seminarians and young children in previous places he served in the 1980s and 1990s, according to the Does’ lawsuit.
McCormack’s alleged abuse of the Doe brothers began near the end of a summer camp program they attended at the church and school in 2004 and went into the 2004-2005 school year, said Mark A. Brown, a partner at Lane & Lane LLC who represented the plaintiffs. They did not attend the school but were attending a daily after-school program at the time, he said.
And like many victims of sexual abuse, Brown said, the brothers suffered a personality change after the alleged abuse occurred.
"They started using drugs and alcohol to dull themselves," he said. "They lost trust in adults and authority figures in the church … and then one of them had a couple of brief stints getting mental health help in a mental health facility."
The brothers stayed silent about the alleged abuse and even denied its occurrence until a family member saw news that McCormack was arrested on sexual abuse charges and began talking to them about it, Brown said.
"Once he was arrested, they sort of felt like ‘OK, I’m not imagining it, I didn’t do anything wrong,’" he said. "It was incredibly difficult to do so and say ‘Yes, this happened to me’ and finally talk about it, but it wasn’t until they learned that this was happening that they were able to do that."
George was initially named as a defendant in the lawsuit but was removed after his death in 2015.
The parties engaged in litigation, and the defendants took depositions on the case but never filed an answer to the Does’ lawsuit. Adam T. Rick, an associate
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