PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Courthouse News Service
By REUBEN KRAMER
PHILADELPHIA (CN) – An unprecedented clergy sex-abuse trial began Monday with claims that a cardinal’s aide “did his damndest” at the nearly impossible job of identifying predatory priests.
Monsignor William Lynn, 61, is the highest-ranking member of the Roman Catholic Church in America to go to trial on a child endangerment charge.
The case against Lynn is unique because it stems from his administrative role overseeing hundreds of priests as clergy secretary for the Philadelphia Archdiocese between 1992 and 2004.
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