PHILADELPHIA – A Roman Catholic church official in the U.S. has left prison after winning an appeal of his landmark conviction in a priest-abuse scandal.
A Pennsylvania prison spokeswoman says Monsignor William Lynn was released Thursday from prison after 18 months.
The 62-year-old Lynn was the first U.S. church official charged for hiding complaints that priests were molesting children. He handled such complaints in Philadelphia from 1992-2004.
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Prosecutors charged him with felony child endangerment. But the appeals court says the law at the time didn’t cover people who don’t directly supervise children.
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The Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office is taking Lynn to a Philadelphia jail to be fitted with an electronic monitoring device. After that, he’ll be released.
Prosecutors are appealing the Superior Court ruling.
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