PHILADELPHIA (PA)
San Francisco Chronicle
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Attorneys for a jailed Philadelphia monsignor say their client’s one-time co-defendant lied when he pleaded guilty to abusing an altar boy.
Monsignor William Lynn is seeking bail while he appeals his conviction on child endangerment charges for failing to protect a boy from the priest he now claims lied when admitting the abuse.
In a Superior Court motion filed Monday, Lynn’s attorneys say former priest Edward Avery gave prosecutors a statement and took a polygraph test in which he denied even knowing the boy. The motion claims Avery didn’t actually abuse the boy but opted to plead guilty in order to receive a lesser jail term.
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