No verdict yet in Philadelphia Catholic church case
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A Philadelphia jury ended a second day of deliberations on Monday without reaching a verdict in the child sex abuse trial of a Roman Catholic monsignor, thehighest ranking U.S. official to stand trial in the church’s wide-ranging pedophilia scandal.
Monsignor William Lynn, who for 12 years as secretary of the clergy supervised hundreds of priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, is accused of conspiracy and child endangerment.
If convicted on all charges, he faces the possibility of 21 years in prison.
The jury in Common Pleas Court before Judge M. Teresa Sarmina began deliberating on Friday after hearing 10 weeks of testimony in the closely watched trial that has rocked the nation’s sixth largest Archdiocese, with 1.5 million members.
Prosecutors said Lynn, 61, covered up child sex abuse allegations, often by transferring priests to unsuspecting
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Thomas, you really should drop your “Thomas Merton” moniker — he never would make the kind of posts you do.
How can this be? How can justice once again be shielded by the cloth of the church? This is why the church has been getting away with child sexual abuse all these years. People are not true to the truth about the church. There is no reason for any delay in finding this animal guilty as charged and the conspiracy behind it. This is a travesty.