PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By John P. Martin
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A judge today denied a bid by Msgr. William J. Lynn to be freed on house arrest until his sentencing on child endangerment charges.
Common Pleas Court judge M. Teresa Sarmina ordered the cleric to remain in jail but agreed to move his sentencing date up to July 24 from Aug. 13.
Lynn, a former ranking administrator for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, has been jailed since his June 22 conviction on child endangerment charges.
After a three-month trial, a jury found he endangered children when he left the then-Rev. Edward Avery in active ministry in the mid 1990s despite knowing the priest had previously abused a minor. Avery later sexually assaulted a 10-year-old altar boy at a Northeast Philadelphia church.
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