First US Catholic pedophile cover-up trial opens

[Misfit]

First US Catholic pedophile cover-up trial opens | News.com.au

HIGH-ranking Catholic priest Monsignor William Lynn protected the dark "secrets" of child-abusing subordinates, a US prosecutor said at the start of a landmark trial.

The trial of the most senior church official in the United States to be charged with covering up priests' sexual abuse of children began under heavy media scrutiny in Philadelphia.

Prosecutors are targeting Lynn for allegedly shuffling two priests suspected of child abuse to other positions, thereby enabling the crimes to continue.

Assistant district attorney Jacqueline Coelho described Lynn as the "keeper of the secrets," tasked with protecting the church from scandal and keeping parishioners in the dark. "The protection of children was the furthest thing from defendant Lynn's mind," Ms Coelho said.

 

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Bad news for him, sad news for everybody that has ever entrusted their children to church organizations and had those children abused or molested by church staff. And I mean ALL churches of all denominations and creeds.

This crap has happened everywhere, but seems to have been ingrained with too many and basically ignored in the Catholic church for some time now.

High time some high heads be hanging.

 

[Radiant1]

High time some high heads be hanging.

Word. May justice be served here and in the hereafter.

 

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