PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Joseph A. Slobodzian and Julie Zauzmer
Inquirer Staff Writers
In the end, jurors said, it was not about the Catholic Church or the prosecution’s carefully crafted litany of Philadelphia priests who over the years abused children and got away with it.
It was about two people and what they did, and what prosecutors proved beyond a reasonable doubt, said Isa Logan, foreman of the 12 Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jurors in the landmark Catholic Church sex-abuse trial.
Logan, 35, a muscular, 6-foot-6 Army veteran, bank worker, and deacon of a nondenominational West Philadelphia church, met with reporters Friday afternoon and, above the noise of traffic around City Hall, tried to give some insight into the jurors’ deliberations.
“We followed the court’s instructions and the evidence,” said Logan, a father of three who said he gained a new appreciation for the vulnerability of children.
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