The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has reinstated the conviction of the first Catholic Church official to be convicted criminally for the sexual abuse of children for whose welfare he was responsible for but who he did not directly abuse, The Legal Intelligencer's Gina Passarella and Lizzy McLellan report.
The intermediate appellate court found that Monsignor William Lynn could not have been convicted for endangering the welfare of children he never supervised. But Justice Max Baer, writing for the majority of the Supreme Court, found that Lynn"'was a person supervising the welfare of many children because, as a high-ranking official in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, he was specifically responsible for protecting children from sexually abusive priests,"' The Legal reports.
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