PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Catholic Online
PHILADELPHIA, PA (Catholic Online) – Judge Teresa Sermina told Monsignor William Lynn that he was being sentenced to prison because he protected “monsters in clerical garb who molested children.”
Lynn will serve at least three of those years in prison, and possibly longer. A sentence for another, single count of child endangerment is pending and could add a seventh year to his time.
Monsignor Lynn oversaw 800 priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese and was responsible for investigating claims of abuse. However, instead of involving higher Church and civil authorities, Lynn often covered up allegations of abuse often by transferring priests to different parishes where they continued to prey on children.
In one case, he transferred a known pedophile priest to another parish that was attached to a grade school. That priest went on to abuse a 10-year-old boy.
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