Former priest Daniel McCormack committed to state facility for sex offenders

Former priest Daniel McCormack will remain indefinitely at a state facility for the mentally ill, a Cook County judge ruled on Wednesday.

McCormack will be confined to a detention facility in downstate Rushville, where he has been living since 2009, when he completed his sentence for molesting boys in the West Side parish where he worked as a priest, teacher and basketball coach.

Judge Dennis Porter last year ruled that McCormack was a "sexually violent person," a designation that allows authorities to hold him at a secure facility even after serving out his prison term.

On Wednesday, Porter ruled that McCormack should remain there until he is deemed to be at low risk of offending again, and noted that to date McCormack has refused to participate in treatment for sex offenders while in prison or at Rushville.

"This is something that doesn't go away on its own," Porter said. "While he's been following the rules while he's been in the (facility) he hasn't had any treatment, either. Seems to me that is significant when talking about his present condition."

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