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Monsignor convicted of child endangerment in priest abuse coverup

Msgr. William Lynn heads to court in Philadelphia this week. (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)

By David Zucchino
June 22, 2012, 1:31 p.m.
A Pennsylvania jury Friday convicted Msgr. William J. Lynn of child endangerment for covering up sexual abuse of children by priests, but found the former Philadelphia archdiocese official not guilty of conspiracy and another endangerment charge.

Lynn, 61, is the first Roman Catholic official in the U.S. to be tried and convicted on charges related to the church scandal in which priests across the country sexually abused children for years. In the landmark case, prosecutors said Lynn reassigned pedophile priests in Philadelphia while covering up allegations of sexual abuse.

The jury of seven men and five women deadlocked on attempted rape and child endangerment charges against the Rev. James J. Brennan, prompting the judge in the case to declare a mistrial on those charges. Prosecutors could decide to retry Brennan.

By assigning pedophile priests to unsuspecting parishes, prosecutors said, Lynn exposed more children to potential abuse in an attempt to protect the church’s reputation and stave off lawsuits. Prosecutors produced a list that Lynn compiled in 1994 naming 37 priests in the archdiocese who had been identified as pedophiles or were suspected of sexually abusing children.

Lynn faces up to seven years in prison on the endangerment conviction. He was denied bail and will remain in custody while awaiting a sentencing hearing Aug. 13.       

Friday’s verdicts came on the 13th day of jury deliberations in the two-month trial in Philadelphia’s Common Pleas court.

The trial was noteworthy because Lynn was not accused of sexual misconduct, but of covering it up. More than a dozen witnesses testified that they were sexually abused by priests who had been allowed to serve in their parishes even after being suspected or accused of abuse.

Among Lynn’s responsibilities as secretary for clergy for the 1.5 million-member archdiocese from 1992 to 2004 was supervising more than 800 priests and investigating allegations of sexual abuse. He was accused of recommending that Brennan and another priest suspected of abusing children, Edward Avery, continue to serve in parishes in the nation’s sixth-largest archdiocese.

Brennan, 48, was accused of raping a 14-year-old boy in 1996. Avery pleaded guilty before trial of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old altar boy in 1999 and is serving a 2½-to-five-year prison sentence.

Prosecutors said Lynn lied to parents about pedophile priests in an attempt to protect the archdiocese, and that he and other church officials were lax in responding to credible reports of abuse. In some instances, prosecutors said, Lynn suggested to accused priests that their young alleged victims had enticed them into sexual contact.

In testimony that lasted three days, Lynn told jurors that he compiled the list of pedophile priests in order to address allegations of sexual abuse. Before the trial, archdiocese lawyers gave prosecutors a handwritten church memo that suggested Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua had ordered the list destroyed.

Lynn testified that only Bevilacqua, who died in January at age 88, had the authority to remove pedophile priests.

"I did my best with what I could do,’’ Lynn testified.

Lynn said he tried to persuade some accused priests to leave their posts and undergo treatment. And he testified that medical experts had advised him not to contact alleged victims because they would be unwilling to discuss details of sexual abuse.

While arguing for bail for Lynn on Friday, defense attorney Jeffrey M. Lindy told Judge M. Teresa Sarmina: "You can’t seriously think that Monsignor Lynn, after being investigated after 10 years, is going to flee,’’ the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Assistant Dist. Atty. Patrick Blessington countered by telling the judge: "This is a case that is going to call for a tough jail sentence.’’

Blessington added: "Let’s start today. Today, to jail. That’s justice.’’

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Trial begins for man who beat priest he says molested him
William Lynch is accused of assaulting Father Jerold Lindner at the priest's retirement home. Lynch says the priest sexually assaulted him when he was 7.


William Lynch, right, hugs his father, John Lynch, as they arrive at a San Jose courthouse. William Lynch is being tried on charges of assault and elder abuse. (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press / June 20, 2012)

By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times
June 21, 2012
SAN JOSE — When the jury in Department 34 of Santa Clara County Superior Court finally sits down to deliberate, the main question facing the nine men and three women sounds simple: Just who is the victim here?

William Lynch, 45, is accused of tracking down Father Jerold Lindner on May 10, 2010, and assaulting him at his Jesuit retirement home. Witnesses testified during the preliminary hearing that Lynch had punched and kicked the elderly priest, yelling: "You ruined my life. Turn yourself in. You molested me."

Lynch and his younger brother sued the Society of Jesus, Lindner's order, 15 years ago, alleging that the priest had raped them and forced them to have sex with each other when Lynch was 7 and his brother 4. The case was settled for $625,000, and Lindner was removed from Loyola High School in Los Angeles, where he had been teaching. The church never informed law enforcement about the allegations.

More than a dozen men and women have accused Lindner of molesting them through the years — including his sister, nieces and nephew. The Catholic Church has settled three cases brought against him, according to a Jesuit spokesman. But the 67-year-old has never faced charges because the statute of limitations for the alleged abuse had run out.

Now Lynch has been charged with felony assault and elder abuse, facing up to four years in prison. He turned down a plea agreement, he said in an interview as his trial began here Wednesday, because "I realized it was the only way I could get Father Lindner in court and to have an opportunity to possibly find some justice that way."

Deputy Dist. Atty. Vicki Gemetti began her dramatic opening statement in silence, placing a larger-than-life photo of a dazed and bloodied Lindner on an easel before the jurors. Every seat in the courtroom was filled.

"Who beat up the old man?" Gemetti began. "That's what you thought about when you saw that picture and you didn't know anything else about it. The defendant beat up the old man. The defendant beat this man up because he's angry and wanted revenge.

"The defendant planned and executed a violent attack against the man who molested him over 30 years ago," she continued, saying Lynch had acted as a vigilante. And revenge, Gemetti said, "is not a defense, ever, to a criminal act."

Lynch — and possibly other alleged victims of Lindner — are scheduled to testify in the trial. To blunt the stories of stolen innocence and defuse the power of details that she called "gut-wrenching," Gemetti on Wednesday played a nine-minute video of Lynch describing for the San Jose Mercury News how Lindner had raped and strangled him and forced him to commit incest as the priest watched.

Then she told the jury that the evidence in the trial "will show that he molested the defendant all those years ago."

In addition, Gemetti said, Lindner "will probably lie to you" and say the abuse never happened. But Lynch is the one on trial, she said, and "the evidence in this case will establish that the defendant beat this man. It will be undeniable."

Defense attorney Pat Harris countered the photograph of a Lindner with an elementary school picture of Lynch, age 7, smiling, and a Polaroid of the Lynch boys and their sister. William has his arm around his younger brother.

"The case did not begin in 2010," Harris told the jury. "It began with a 7-year-old boy and his 4-year-old brother … the two of them were on a camping trip with their family."

It was Memorial Day weekend, 1974, and the campout in the Santa Cruz Mountains was sponsored by a group of devout lay Catholics called the Christian Family Movement. "Father Jerry," as he was known then, was the group's spiritual advisor.

Lindner lured Lynch into his tent twice and raped him, Harris said. The first time, the boy was alone. The second time he arrived at Lindner's tent, Lynch's little brother was already there, looking dazed.

Lindner proceeded to rape and sodomize Lynch, Harris said, "then he forced Mr. Lynch and his brother to have a sexual act." Afterward, Harris said, Lindner "told Mr. Lynch, 'You are no longer a child of God. You are dirty.'

"And he threatened that he would do unspeakable acts to his family if they ever told," Harris continued. "For years they didn't."

But Lynch did not act out of revenge, Harris said. After his brother told their parents about the abuse when the two young men were in their 20s, Lynch went to police and to the Catholic Church. He said he and his brother finally filed a civil suit in an effort to get Lindner out of the classroom and away from other young people.

In the years since the alleged abuse, Lynch has suffered from depression and alcohol abuse and twice attempted suicide. He and his brother have since become estranged. "I essentially died that day," Lynch said in an interview after the opening statements.

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Church sex abuse complaint sent to police



Allegations of sexual abuse at a Catholic school in Sydney's south have been passed to police by a lawyers' group calling for a royal commission into the scandal-plagued church.
THE Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) on Wednesday forwarded NSW police a complaint against a teacher at St Patrick's College, Sutherland, who allegedly "sexually and indecently" assaulted a pupil between 1976 and 1977.
ALA NSW spokesman Andrew Morrison says an internal investigation into the incident by the church was aborted in 2011.
"This is the first [investigation] I've seen where the process was stopped part of the way through, and the inference there is to protect members of the clergy," Dr Morrison told AAP.
It follows revelations, aired by the ABC Four Corners program on Monday, that the Catholic Church in Australia covered up sexual abuse by one of its priests, named only as "Father F".
Dr Morrison said the ALA hoped that handing the matter to police would add weight to calls for a royal commission into the church following the Four Corners report.
The report said Father F was sacked by the church in 2005 after serious sexual abuse allegations but had since become a prominent citizen in the NSW town of Armidale.
It said Father F raped young boys in Moree in the 1980s before being transferred to a parish in Parramatta where he continued to sodomise altar boys.
The ABC said Father F made clear admissions of abuse to three senior priests during a meeting at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney in September 1992.
As a result of the investigation, Father F was banned from conducting mass, hearing confession and counselling, but the matter was reportedly never referred to police.
Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA) president Cathy Kezelman said the ABC report showed the Catholic Church had failed to report an alleged criminal act to the authorities.
"A royal commission is needed to identify the ways in which cover-ups have occurred and the cost of those cover-ups in human terms," Dr Kezelman said.
In a statement released on Tuesday night, the Archdiocese of Sydney - the home diocese of Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic clergy official in Australia - said it was "seeking further information" about the 1992 meeting.