PHILADELPHIA (PA)
The Windsor Star
Agence France-Presse
March 24, 2012
The landmark trial of a Catholic Church official accused of covering up pedophile abuses in the United States is set to start Monday.
Monsignor William Lynn, who oversaw the assignment of priests to schools and parishes across the Philadelphia region, faces accusations that he failed to keep priests accused of sexual abuse away from minors.
The role of such a senior official, whose co-defendant Reverend James Brennan is accused of sexually abusing boys in the 1990s, makes the trial the first of its kind in the U.S.
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