{"id":549,"date":"2012-01-26T06:52:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T12:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=549"},"modified":"2012-01-26T06:52:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T12:52:21","slug":"in-the-city-of-brotherly-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/in-the-city-of-brotherly-love-549.htm","title":{"rendered":"In the City of Brotherly Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\">The Philadelphia prosecutors are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/local\/138095983.\"> going after <\/a>the Archdiocese of Philadelphian as an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of Msgr. Lynn, and want to introduce evidence of the pattern of enabling abusers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">When I had lawyers review my book <em>Sacrilege<\/em> for libel issues, they were astonished at what bishops had done. Bishops came very close to being accessories before the facts to felonies. Bishops escaped because a prosecutor had to prove that a bishop assigned a known abuser to a parish with children with the<strong> intention<\/strong> of helping the crime be committed. Intention is very hard to prove, although when a bishop makes a known abuser a Boy Scout chaplain, circumstantial evidence is pretty strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">Bishops repeatedly showed a total disregard for the safety of children, and as I understand it their legal culpability depends on the statues in each state about child endangerment. New Hampshire has a very strong statute; I do not know what Pennsylvania has. Lynn is no doubt guilty morally of endangering children, but whether his actions and failures are caught by the statute remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-549\" data-postid=\"549\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-549 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia prosecutors are going after the Archdiocese of Philadelphian as an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of Msgr. Lynn, and want to introduce evidence of the pattern of enabling abusers. When I had lawyers review my book Sacrilege for libel issues, they were astonished at what bishops had done. Bishops came very close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[610,74,609,1120],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clergy-sex-abuse","tag-child-endangerment","tag-clergy","tag-msgr-lynn","tag-sexual-abuse","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}