PHILADELPHIA (PA)
NBC 10
Philadelphia prosecutors have appealed to the state’s highest court to restore the endangerment conviction of a Roman Catholic church official.
Monsignor William Lynn is on house arrest, restricted to two floors at the rectory at St. William Parish in Northeast Philly after a mid-level appeals court threw out his case. He must report to a probation officer weekly.
Lynn, the former secretary for clergy in Philadelphia, was convicted in 2012 of endangering children by transferring a predator-priest in the 1990s. The Superior Court said last month he should not have been charged because the law did not apply to supervisors.
Lynn was freed after the Roman Catholic Church posted 10-percent of his $250,000 bail. The disgraced priest spent 18 months in prison.
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