PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Reuters
By Dave Warner
PHILADELPHIA | Tue Jul 24, 2012
(Reuters) – Monsignor William Lynn, the most senior clergyman convicted in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church scandal, was sentenced on Tuesday to three to six years in prison for covering up child sex abuse by priests in Philadelphia.
Judge M. Teresa Sarmina told Lynn, 61, the former secretary of the clergy for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, that he protected “monsters in clerical garb who molested children.”
Lynn had faced up to seven years behind bars for his conviction on a single count of child endangerment.
Lynn, who oversaw the work of 800 priests, was convicted of covering up sex-abuse allegations, often by transferring predatory priests to unsuspecting parishes.
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