PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
Here are the questions from National Catholic Reporter that District Attorney Seth Williams declined to answer:
1. At the plea bargain hearing of Edward V. Avery, why didn’t the district attorney ask the former priest if he had raped Billy Doe?
2. What is the district attorney’s explanation for why he was able to charge Msgr. Lynn with endangering the welfare of a child [EWOC] when a previous district attorney, Lynne Abraham, and a previous grand jury, looked at the same state law and declared that Msgr. Lynn couldn’t be charged with EWOC?
3. Why did the district attorney deem Billy Doe a credible victim when he gave wildly varying accounts of the alleged rapes, and told a fantastic story about being raped by three different predators, without any corroborating witnesses or physical evidence? A story contradicted by Billy Doe’s mother, his older brother, and priests, nuns and teachers from St. Jerome’s?
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