PHILADELPHIA (PA)
The Times Herald
By The Associated Press
POSTED: 01/02/14
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Roman Catholic church official is set to leave prison after 18 months because he won an appeal of his landmark conviction in the priest-abuse scandal.
A state prison spokeswoman, Terri Fazio, says Monsignor William Lynn is scheduled to be released Thursday from the prison in Waymart, in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Lynn is set to be taken to Philadelphia, where he must remain on electronic monitoring while prosecutors appeal the Superior Court ruling.
The 62-year-old Lynn was the first U.S. church official ever charged for hiding complaints that priests were molesting children. He was the point person for those complaints in Philadelphia from 1992-2004.
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