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[PegnVA]

It's interesting - read: depressing - this guy is still a Monsignor and was not defrocked...It points to how "seriously" the Catholic church takes the crime of child abuse and subsequent cover-ups.

[fuagf]

If i read this right

"In Thursday’s reversal, the appeals court said that the state had provided “more than adequate” evidence that Monsignor Lynn “prioritized the archdiocese’s reputation over the safety of potential victims of sexually abusive priests.” But it rejected the argument, accepted by the 2012 trial judge and jury, that a child welfare law applied to a “parent, guardian or other person supervising the welfare of a child” could be used to prosecute Monsignor Lynn. To eliminate any ambiguity, that law was modified in 2007, after his retirement, to explicitly apply to employers and supervisors as well."

Monsignor Lynn would be convicted today with little, hopefully no,
chance the conviction would be overturned .. hope that's right ..