Guilty priest now focus child abuse trial
Philadelphia Inquirer - 1 hour ago
By John P. Martin Prosecutors and defense lawyers at the conspiracy and child-sex abuse trial of two Philadelphia priests battled Monday over whether and what jurors can be told about a third defendant who was accused of assaulting multiple boys and ...
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Priest: Seminarians Tried to Gang Rape Me
NBC 10 Philadelphia - 52 minutes ago
A Catholic priest admitting a sexual relationship with a teen said he had been the victim of an attempted gang rape by fellow seminarians in Philadelphia. By MARYCLAIRE DALE A Catholic priest admitting a sexual relationship with a teen said he had been ...
Philadelphia trial unearths shocking tales of widespread abuse by priests
Detroit Free Press - Apr 21, 2012
By Maryclaire Dale AP PHILADELPHIA -- Graphic testimony in a Philadelphia clergy-abuse trial this month has ripped opened secret church files and reopened old wounds among Catholics as scarred men and women tell jurors that priests groped, ...
US priest trial painful, poignant for Catholics
Inquirer.net (blog) - Apr 21, 2012
By Maryclaire Dale AP In this file photo, Monsignor William Lynn leaves the Criminal Justice Center, in Philadelphia. According to testimony Thursday, April 19, 2012 in a clergy-abuse trial, a heinous 1992 priest-abuse complaint "fell through the ...