PENNSYLVANIA
PennLive
By Matt Miller | mmiller@pennlive.com
on May 08, 2014
The state Supreme Court agreed Thursday to consider a plea to overturn an appeals court ruling that freed a Roman Catholic Church official convicted of child endangerment in a priest sex abuse scandal.
Pennsylvania’s highest court took on the case on a appeal by Philadelphia prosecutors, who want to send Monsignor William Lynn back to prison.
Lynn, 63, was the first U.S. church officials to be charged with hiding child molestation complaints against priests. He was the contact person for the filing of such complaints in Philadelphia from 1992 through 2004.
Prosecutors claimed Lynn, a former secretary for clergy at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, covered up sex abuse incidents and put children at risk by reassigning priests who were sex predators to new parishes in Philadelphia.
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