World News | Chicago Archdiocese Settles Sex Abuse Suit for $1.2 Million
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to pay $1.2 million to a man who alleged that he was sexually abused when he was 12 years old by a defrocked priest who was convicted of sexually abusing several boys, the man's attorney announced on Tuesday.
Chicago, May 18 (AP) The Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to pay $1.2 million to a man who alleged that he was sexually abused when he was 12 years old by a defrocked priest who was convicted of sexually abusing several boys, the man's attorney announced on Tuesday.
The settlement of the case before a lawsuit was filed was announced in a news release by attorney Lyndsay Markley and marks the latest chapter in the story of Daniel McCormack, one of the most notorious pedophiles in the history of Chicago's archdiocese.
Also Read | Fake Twitter Handles From Pakistan Mislead Users by Promoting Chinese Narrative.
McCormack, who pleaded guilty in 2007 to sexually abusing five children while he was a priest at St Agatha's parish in Chicago, was released from prison last fall and has registered as a sex offender with the Illinois State Police.
According to published reports, he was listed at that time as living in Chicago's Near North neighbourhood.
Also Read | Pakistan Hit by Deadly Cholera Outbreak As Country Grips with Water Crisis Amid Heat Wave.
The settlement follows other similar settlements in which the archdiocese has agreed to pay men who alleged they were abused by McCormack when they were children.
In all, the archdiocese has paid well over $12 million to men who filed lawsuits or settled cases involving McCormack before filing lawsuits.
Like many of the other victims, the man who filed the most recently settled lawsuit said that he was sexually abused while McCormack was a priest at St Agatha's. According to the news release, the man alleged he was attending an after-school programme at the parish when McCormack sexually abused him on multiple occasions in 2005.
The archdiocese declined to comment on the settlement. (AP)
(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)