UNITED STATES
The Post-Standard
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
By The Post-Standard Editorial Board
Guilty verdicts June 22 in two high-profile sex-abuse cases in Pennsylvania offer an important turning point for victims of similar crimes.
A jury convicted former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky of 45 counts of sexually abusing 10 boys. During the two-week trial, eight men graphically described repeated assaults by Sandusky at Penn State, in hotel rooms and in the basement of Sandusky’s home. Sandusky, 68, was arrested in November; he had been investigated by campus police for possible sexual crimes against children as far back as 1998. He’s likely to spend the rest of his life in prison.
The same day that Sandusky was led from a courtroom in handcuffs, a jury convicted Monsignor William J. Lynn of endangering children by shielding and reassigning priests accused of molesting children. As an aide to the late Philadelphia’s Catholic Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, Lynn was in charge of recommending priest assignments and investigating complaints of abuse from 1992 to 2004.
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