CALIFORNIA
Marin Independent Journal
By Tracey Kaplan
tkaplan@mercurynews.com
mercurynews.com
The feds couldn’t get gangster Al Capone for murder, so they went after him on tax evasion. The infamous and brutal crime boss did eight years for the lesser charge, emerging from Alcatraz a broken man.
Now, a group of adults who claim they were sexually assaulted as children by the Rev. Jerold Lindner are hoping prosecutors will go after the 68-year-old Los Gatos priest — the best legal way they can. The deadline to prosecute the cleric for child molestation has long since passed, but Lindner’s alleged victims want Santa Clara County prosecutors to file perjury charges against the cleric for allegedly lying under oath in a recent trial.
At District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s invitation, two of the advocates are meeting with prosecutors Wednesday afternoon to discuss the explosive issue. Attending the meeting will be defense attorney Pat Harris and his client, Will Lynch, the San Francisco man who admitted beating up Lindner in 2010 at a Jesuit retirement home but was acquitted in July for the assault by a sympathetic jury.
Lynch says Lindner raped him when he was 7 and also molested his 4-year-old brother at the same time. The Jesuits paid the brothers $187,000 each after legal fees to settle their lawsuit. But Lindner briefly took the stand during Lynch’s assault trial and denied the molestation charges before refusing to answer any other questions.
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