NEW YORK
New York Post
By MARIANNE GARVEY
January 29, 2006 -- A man who claims he and his brother were sexually abused by a Catholic priest three decades ago is outraged their alleged attacker will receive no jail time in another child-molestation case.
"I don't know how he's not behind bars," said Bob Lambert of Rev. Joseph Byrns, who was on trial in Brooklyn for allegedly sodomizing an 11-year-old altar boy but pleaded guilty last Monday to misdemeanor child endangerment to avoid jail.
Lambert, 50, said Byrns, 63, preyed on him and his younger brother Tim when Byrns served at St. Anastasia in Douglaston, Queens. Lambert was 14 and Tim 12 at the time. When Bob Lambert came forward with his dark secret in 1997, he learned Tim had suffered the same fate.