PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
JULIE SHAW, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER SHAWJ@PHILLYNEWS.COM, 215-854-2592
POSTED: Sunday, January 5, 2014
THE ARCHDIOCESE of Philadelphia for the first time yesterday confirmed that it paid the $25,000 needed to bail out Monsignor William Lynn so that he could be released from state prison while prosecutors appeal his recently overturned conviction for child endangerment.
In a statement yesterday, Archbishop Charles Chaput said the decision to provide the $25,000, or 10 percent of Lynn’s $250,000 bail, was made at “my direction.”
“Monsignor Lynn remains on administrative leave,” Chaput said. “As such, he may not function publicly as a priest.”
Chaput also explained that the “funding for [Lynn’s] bail has been taken from no parish, school or ministry resources, impacts no ongoing work of the church and will be returned when the terms of bail are completed.”
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