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Dave Pierre
The anti-Catholic advocacy group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) says it is “grateful” that a criminal jury acquitted a man of felony assault after he brutally attacked an elderly priest that he said abused him some 37 years ago in 1975.
On May 10, 2010, William Lynch used a ruse to enter a retirement home for retired priests. He then violently thrashed 65-year-old Rev. Jerold Lindner in front of shocked witnesses until the priest was bruised and bloody. Lynch readily admitted to the angry beating. [Read more about the case]
Following the acquittal last week in the high-profile trial, SNAP issued a media statement written by its alleged “Outreach Director” Barbara Dorris:
Violence is always wrong. Still, we are grateful for this verdict. The odds that Lynch would ever reoffend are infinitely small.
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