20-year church abuse probe ends with monsignor’s quiet plea


              FILE - Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua listens to a reporter's question as Archbishop Justin F. Rigali, right, listens at a news conference in Philadelphia, July 15, 2003. Monsignor William Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy, was accused of sending a known predator, named on a list of problem priests he had prepared for Cardinal Bevilacqua, to an accuser’s northeast Philadelphia parish. Lynn served nearly three years in state prison before appeals courts threw out his felony child endangerment conviction, and he pleaded no contest in November 2022 to a misdemeanor charge of failing to turn over records to the 2002 grand jury. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)
            
              FILE – Monsignor William Lynn arrives for a preliminary hearing in his retrial of his child endangerment case at the Center for Criminal Justice in Philadelphia, March 28, 2017. Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy, was accused of sending a known predator, named on a list of problem priests he had prepared for Cardinal Bevilacqua, to an accuser’s northeast Philadelphia parish. Lynn served nearly three years in state prison before appeals courts threw out his felony child endangerment conviction, and he pleaded no contest in November 2022 to a misdemeanor charge of failing to turn over records to the 2002 grand jury. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
20-year church abuse probe ends with monsignor’s quiet plea