OFFICIAL IN CHURCH SCANDAL ASKS FOR PROBATION, Assoc. Press,
July 20th, Detroit
News.
I have reported in the past about Monsignor William Lynn
(61), a Catholic priest in Philadelphia
that was convicted of child endangerment for letting abuser priests continue
their abuse instead of putting a stop to the abuse by reporting the abuse to
the police.
His defense said that he was not in charge (the archbishop
was and he is now dead) and was just following orders but that did not wash
with the jury who convicted him, making him the first Catholic church official
convicted for essentially covering up the abuse.
Now Lynn
is asking for a probationary sentence saying that he has already experienced
months of scrutiny, vilification and shame. He is asking for a sentence of time
served combined with house arrest, community service, work release or
probation; the poor baby has suffered enough!
It is true that Lynn himself did not abuse any children but
the fact that he “knowingly” allowed abusers to continue to abuse children
makes him not only culpable in the crime but, in my mind, guilty of the abuse
itself.
His lawyers say that putting him in jail will not serve any
purpose at all and would be cruel and unusual punishment but I disagree and
feel that a message must be sent to all Catholic abuse enablers, that the law
is coming for you and you will be punished.
It also sends a clear message to the Vatican that it
can no longer hide its crimes but must take responsibility for them and accept
punishment; not divine punishment but earthly punishment for committing crimes
against earthly beings, innocent and vulnerable young ones at that.
As to Lynn himself and to the many others like him in the
Church, this case exposes and reveals clerics who are supposed adult, responsible
men who have lost all sense of humanity and with it the ability to distinguish
right from wrong, sacrificing the welfare of fellow humans (children) just to
protect an organization that is supposed to be all about humanity.
Lynn and fellow clerics in the Catholic Church have lost
their ability to behave like responsible adukt human beings and are basically
zombies of the Church with no moral or ethical standards common to humans and
this HAS to be trumpeted to the world so that the Vatican and its minions is
revealed for what it is; a criminal organization hell bent on self-preservation
at all costs.
THROW THE BOOK AT HIM and let him do some earthly atonement
behind bars and ponder how he lost his humanity and how the entire Church
leadership structure has deteriorated to such a level that those leaders are
now considered common criminals.
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