Priest assault trial resumes with abuse allegation

CALIFORNIA
The Sacramento Bee

By PAUL ELIAS
Associated Press

Published: Wednesday, Jun. 27, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO — Jurors in the trial of a California man accused of beating a priest he says molested him are hearing the abuse allegations.

Mary Eden, a health-care worker at the retirement home where the Rev. Jerold Lindner lived, testified Wednesday that she witnessed defendant William Lynch punch Lindner twice and scream that Lindner had raped him and his brother and ruined their lives.

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