PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Times-Tribune
PHILADELPHIA – A Roman Catholic church official who won an appeal of his landmark conviction in the priest-abuse scandal left a Pennsylvania prison on Thursday after 18 months behind bars.
Monsignor William Lynn left the state prison in Waymart, prison spokeswoman Terri Fazio said, and was taken by the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office to a city jail, where he was to be fitted with an electronic monitoring device.
He will then be released, probably to the custody of a family member, one of his lawyers said. It was not clear late Thursday when that would happen.
The attorney, Thomas Bergstrom, declined to say where in Philadelphia his client will live while prosecutors appeal the Superior Court ruling.
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