PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By John P. Martin and Joseph A. Slobodzian
Inquirer Staff Writers
The defense in the clergy sex-abuse trial rested Tuesday after Msgr. William J. Lynn ended three days’ contentious testimony the way he began – asserting he had done his best to protect children but had lacked the power to do more.
“I did much more than had been done before I got there,” Lynn said, later adding: “I have many victims that told me I helped them.”
After the former Archdiocese of Philadelphia clergy secretary left the witness stand, the landmark trial moved briskly toward a conclusion.
Lawyers for Lynn and his codefendant, the Rev. James J. Brennan, called their final witnesses – friends, relatives, parishioners, priests, and nuns who praised the defendants as law-abiding citizens.
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