PHILADELPHIA (PA)
ABC News

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press

A bail hearing has been set Monday for a Roman Catholic church official after his child-endangerment conviction was overturned.

Monsignor William Lynn won’t be at the hearing in Philadelphia. He remains in custody at a state prison in northeast Pennsylvania.

The 62-year-old Lynn is the first church official ever prosecuted over his handling of priest sex-abuse complaints. Lynn has served 18 months of the 3- to 6-year sentence.

But the Superior Court threw out his conviction Thursday, saying the law did not apply in the late 1990s to church supervisors like Lynn.