Priest's Sex Abuse Cover-up Conviction Overturned

Stuff
December 26, 2013

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/9556590/Priests-sex-abuse-cover-up-conviction-overturned

A US appeals court has overturned the conviction of a high-ranking Catholic church official foudn guilty last year of covering up a child sex abuse scandal.

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted in June, 2012, of endangering the welfare of a child by re-assigning a priest with a history of sexual abuse to a Philadelphia parish that was unaware of his past.

Lynn was sentenced to a three-to-six-year prison term.

A Superior Court of Pennsylvania appeals panel reversed his conviction and ordered Lynn discharged from prison.