PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Newsworks
May 31, 2012
By Elizabeth Fiedler
District Attorney Seth Williams sat in a Philadelphia courtroom today to observe the prosecution’s closing arguments in the landmark clergy sexual abuse case.
Williams was surrounded by the media, as well as advocates for survivors of abuse, and the defendants’ supporters.
Monsignor William Lynn is accused of failing to prevent other priests from sexually abusing children.
Lynn is the first U.S. church official to be charged in a child sex abuse case for his administrative actions.
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