Citizens press Saginaw Bishop about abuse case

SAGINAW (MI)
WNEM

[with video]

SAGINAW, MI (WNEM) –
A group of concerned citizens is pressing Saginaw Bishop Joseph Cistone about his role in covering up a case of sex abuse in Philadelphia.

A Philadelphia attorney representing an altar boy who claims he was molested in 1992, plans to name Cistone in a civil lawsuit. It’s alleged Cistone witnessed the destruction of documents naming priests suspected of child abuse, and then lied about it to a grand jury.

Monsignor William Lynn, who was convicted in June of child endangerment in this same case, had reported to Cistone in church hierarchy, and claims Cistone witnessed the shredding of documents that described the alleged abuse.

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