PENNSYLVANIA
Newsweek
[with video]
BY RALPH CIPRIANO ON 7/27/16
Monsignor William Lynn, who was convicted by the testimony of an alleged sex abuse victim whom a Newsweek story described, in its headline, as a “lying, scheming altar boy” earlier this year, is a free man.
Lynn was incarcerated at the State Correctional Institute at Waymart, Pennsylvania, where he served as prison librarian, checking books in and out for fellow inmates as well as keeping track of periodicals. He was paid 19 cents an hour.
In a one-page decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it would not review the reversal of Lynn’s conviction by a lower appeals court. The state’s highest court wrote that the Philadelphia district attorney’s “petition for allowance of appeal is denied.”
After serving 33 months in jail, and 15 months under house arrest, the 65-year-old monsignor could be on a bus to Philadelphia as early as Wednesday, his lawyer said. “It’s been a long time coming,” said Thomas Bergstrom. “We’ll file a bail motion first thing in the morning.”
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