PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Monica Yant Kinney, Inquirer Columnist
What’s the appropriate response when your tormentor gets his comeuppance?
Should you clap? Sigh? Sob? Smile in recognition of a rare moment of karmic payback?
Msgr. William J. Lynn didn’t rape anyone, but he still received a three- to six-year sentence in prison for endangering the welfare of children. He’s guilty of inaction more than action. He sullied the priesthood not as a predator, but as the worst kind of company man – a pathologically passive-aggressive coward afraid to question his boss.
Vicky Cubberley, 62, a survivor of clergy sex abuse, never expected this day, so she didn’t know quite what to do when victims finally notched a victory. She reveled for a minute, then got back to the business of trying to survive a life of man-made agony.
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