PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Brial
TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2015
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
The civil case of Billy Doe, the truth-challenged former altar boy who’s seeking to cash in on an improbable tale of serial sex abuse, was originally scheduled for trial against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Aug. 3rd.
The Pope is scheduled to be in Philadelphia a month later, from Sept. 25-27, for the World Meeting of Families.
What were the chances of the Pope and Billy, however briefly, sharing a media spotlight?
Apparently zero. On July 10, on the court docket there’s a new trial date posted for the civil case of Billy Doe v. the Archdiocese of Philadelphia et al of Nov. 9th.
Meanwhile, when Pope Francis visits the city, he’s scheduled to visit Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. But one of the inmates the Pope won’t be meeting with is Msgr. William J. Lynn, the first Catholic administrator in the country to be sent to jail for failing to supervise predator priests.
According to Lynn’s lawyer, Thomas A. Bergstrom, Lynn was moved last week from Curran-Fromhold to SCI Waymart, a state prison located two and a half hours north of the city.
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