The attorney representing the first Catholic Church administrative official convicted of endangering the welfare of children abused by other priests argued Tuesday before the state Supreme Court that the conviction should not stand because the official did not have any supervisory interactions with the children.
Thomas A. Bergstrom of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney argued before the six justices in Harrisburg that the reason the court should uphold the Superior Court’s decision tossing out the conviction of Monsignor William J. Lynn is that Lynn did not knowingly endanger the child who had been abused by a priest Lynn oversaw.
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