CALIFORNIA
ABC News
[with video]
By ALYSSA NEWCOMB (@alyssanewcomb)
June 21, 2012
William Lynch dreamed of this day for more than 35 years, the day the priest who he said sexually abused him and his younger brother would be brought to court and his ugly crimes exposed.
The boys kept their painful secret for years, long past the six year statute of limitations California had in place at the time of the alleged crimes.
But today, William Lynch is finding his own form of personal justice. It’s a risk he is willing to take, even if it means spending the next four years of his life behind bars.
The 44-year-old San Francisco man is on trial for felony assault and elder abuse charges after he allegedly beat the aging Jesuit at his retirement community in 2010.
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