PENNSYLVANIA
Canton Repository
Editorial
The issue: Child sexual abuse cover-ups
Our view: Sentencing of church official, sanctions on Penn State send strong message
Have Americans and some of their institutions decided once and for all that protecting sexual predators at the expense of children is intolerable? Hope that this is the case comes in two developments separated by one day and a scant 200 miles.
Tuesday in a Philadelphia courtroom, a Roman Catholic official was sentenced to three to six years in prison after being convicted of child endangerment. The case against Monsignor William J. Lynn revealed a decades-long pattern in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia of protecting predatory priests at the expense of their victims and parishioners.
“You knew full well what was right, Monsignor,” the judge said while sentencing Lynn, “but you chose wrong.”
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