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Sun-Times file Advocates and survivors of one of Chicago’s most notorious sex abuse cases are urging Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul to keep defrocked priest Daniel McCormack locked up. Minnesota attorney Jeff Anderson, who specializes in child sexual abuse cases, called McCormack’s potential release an “imminent and urgent peril” to the public. “Daniel McCormack as a priest ... is a serial predator and has been incarcerated for some years,” Anderson said during a virtual news...

A coalition of attorneys and abuse survivors called for action Thursday after an appeals court paved the way for the possible release of Chicago’s most notorious figure in the priest sex abuse scandal.

Cardinal Blase Cupich is reinstating the Rev. Michael Pfleger to his post as senior pastor at St. Sabina Catholic Parish after an archdiocesan board found that “there is insufficient reason to suspect” Pfleger is guilty of allegations of sexual abuse, according to a letter from Cupich.

Cardinal Blase Cupich is reinstating the Rev. Michael Pfleger as senior pastor at St. Sabina Parish after the archdiocesan board that investigates sexual abuse claims found “there is insufficient reason to suspect” the iconic South Side priest is guilty of allegations of abuse dating back decades, according to a letter released to parishioners Monday. Two adult brothers from Texas in January ...

Cardinal reinstates Pfleger after probe finds ‘insufficient reason to suspect’ he’s guilty of child sex abuse allegations. ‘Let’s get back to work,’ St. Sabina pastor says. Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune © Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune Surrounded by supporters, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, center, bows his head in prayer before speaking at a news conference May 24, 2021, outside St. Sabina Parish in Chicago. The Rev. Michael Pfleger will return to the pul...

Chicago Oct 6, 2017 A court hearing could keep a former disgraced Chicago priest confined indefinitely. A lawsuit filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court seeks more than $50 million in damages from convicted child molester and defrocked priest Daniel McCormack and the Archdiocese of Chicago. Chicago Sep 8, 2017

An Illinois appeals court has reversed a trial judge’s ruling that a convicted child molester and defrocked priest can be held longer than his sentence,...

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois appeals court has reversed a trial judge’s ruling that a...

But the appellate court reversed that decision, saying prosecutors “failed to prove McCormack’s mental disorder renders him substantially likely to reoffend.” During the 2017 bench trial, Dr. Angelique Stanislaus, a psychiatrist and the state’s witness, and Dr. Raymond Wood, a psychologist who served as the defense expert, both concluded that McCormack had pedophilic disorder. But while Wood said that McCormack had a “below average” risk of reoffending, Stanislaus said the former ...

Wicked Local Weymouth Evening High School Principal Michele Prendergast said although in-person classes had not been held for a year because of the  COVID-19 pandemic, graduates will have an in-person ceremony. Prendergast said the decrease in coronavirus cases and increased vaccinations against the disease would allow for an in-person graduation ceremony to be held, 7:30 p.m. May 24 in Weymouth High School’s auditorium. "A graduate will be allowed to have a maximum of two guests," she said....