PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Reuters
By Dave Warner
PHILADELPHIA | Thu Jun 14, 2012
(Reuters) – Deliberations headed into their eighth day on Thursday in the child sex abuse trial of a Roman Catholic monsignor, with sparks flying in the courtroom and signs of what one attorney called a jury “struggling” to reach a verdict.
Monsignor William Lynn, the highest-ranking church official to stand trial in the wide-ranging pedophilia scandal, is accused of conspiracy and child endangerment.
Prosecutors say in his job overseeing hundreds of priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, Lynn covered up child sex abuse allegations, often by transferring priests to unsuspecting parishes.
Also on trial is the Reverend James Brennan, accused of child endangerment and attempted rape of a 14-year-old child in 1996.
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