PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Houston Chronicle
MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press
Updated 01:14 p.m., Friday, June 22, 2012
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Roman Catholic church official has been convicted of child endangerment but acquitted of conspiracy in a groundbreaking clergy-abuse trial in Philadelphia.
Monsignor William Lynn is the first U.S. church official convicted of a crime for how he handled sex-abuse accusations.
Lynn has been on leave from the church since his arrest last year. The criminal case stems from his long stint as secretary for clergy from 1992 to 2004, mostly under the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua (beh-vih-LAH’-kwah).
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