A man claiming he was molested numerous times while in elementary and high school by convicted sexual predator Daniel McCormick filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Daniel McCormack was defrocked by the Roman Catholic Church after his conviction on multiple counts of sexual abuse. Now his former employer, the Archdiocese of Chicago, will face the anonymous alleged victim and his Illinois injury attorney.
The plaintiff, known only as James C. Doe in court records, alleges the Archdiocese and Cardinal Francis George "breached the duties of reasonable care" when they allowed Daniel McCormack to become a priest in the first place. Furthermore, the suit claims the church moved him around to different parishes even as sex abuse allegations against him began to pile up.
The suit also alleges the former priest continued his abuse of James C. Doe even after police questioned him about a sexual abuse case in 2005 and church officials ordered him not to have contact with minors.
The alleged abuse against James C. Doe began in 2000 when he was in the seventh grade at Our Lady of the Westside and then continued for six years, according to the complaint:
"Through his junior or senior year in high school (2004-2006), McCormack maintained a sexually abusive relationship with Doe."
He also played basketball at the elementary school, where the disgraced former priest coached and taught.
Daniel McCormack currently is serving a five-year prison term after pleading guilty to molesting five boys, but it's unclear whether James C. Doe was one of the five. He began his sentence in 2007.
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