PA Supreme Court Takes Up Priest Abuse Case

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will take up the first case in the country in which a Catholic Church was convicted of endangering children abused by other priests, The Legal Intelligencer's Zack Needles reports. The Pennsylvania Superior Court overturned Monsignor William Lynn's conviction because "the trial judge had refused to address the defense argument that a pre-amended version of Pennsylvania's law criminalizing endangerment of the welfare of children did not apply in the case," The Legal further reports. The high court granted allocatur on the issue of whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lynn either as a principal or as an accomplice to endangering the welfare of children.