PHILADELPHIA (PA)
NBC 10
Day 6 of jury deliberations got underway Monday afternoon in the groundbreaking priest-sex-abuse trail that has a church official on trial for allegedly transferring predator priests within the ministry.
Monsignor William Lynn is the first U.S. church official charged with crimes for his handling of priest sex-abuse complaints. He’s charged with conspiracy and child endangerment for his actions as secretary of clergy at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Lynn, 61, says he took orders from his archbishop, and did what he could to get accused priests into treatment from 1992 to 2004.
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