Two damning reports released by the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Monday show how missteps by Cardinal Francis George and a host of other church officials allowed
an accused pedophile priest to remain in ministry for years with unfettered access to scores of children.
The reports were commissioned by the archdiocese after the Rev. Daniel McCormack was charged with molesting three boys at Chicago's St. Agatha parish between September 2001 and December 2005.
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In the review of the archdiocese's monitoring system for accused pedophile priests, Terry Childers, a clinical social worker and consultant to the U.S. Courts and Federal Judicial Center on sex offender supervision, said the monitoring system allows accused priests to remain anonymous -- a state in which sex offenders "thrive."
When George learned McCormack had been questioned by police but that authorities did not feel they had enough evidence to charge him with a crime, the cardinal refused to remove the young, popular priest from ministry -- despite a "precautionary" recommendation from his own review board that McCormack be yanked from St. Agatha.
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