KENTUCKY
The Courier-Journal
Editorial
Do not think that the guilty verdicts handed down in Pennsylvania last Friday have little or nothing to do with anyone here.
Just because they dealt with a Roman Catholic official in Philadelphia who was convicted of child endangerment for his role in moving around predatory priests without informing the public of the danger that awaited in their churches, and with a serial molester who used his Penn State coaching credentials and his community standing as a “saint” who worked with at-risk kids to shield his crimes, doesn’t mean those horrors are somehow removed from us.
It is true that Monsignor William Lynn, who could spend up to seven years in prison, and former football coach Jerry Sandusky, who faces more than 400 years behind bars, were convicted of crimes they committed in a different state, and held accountable by juries of their peers.
But both defendants and what landed them in court illustrate unthinkable horrors that are visited on children throughout the country, including those in our own communities.
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