Breaking News Alert 
The New York Times 
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 -- 11:49 AM EDT 
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Philadelphia Church Official Sentenced to 3 to 6 Years for Covering Up Child Sex 
Abuse 
 
Msgr. William J. Lynn, the first Roman Catholic official in the United States to 
be convicted of covering up sexual abuses by priests under his supervision, was 
sentenced to three to six years in prison on Tuesday. 
 
Monsignor Lynn, 61, a former Cardinal’s aide, was found guilty on June 22 of one 
count of endangering a child, after a trial lasting more than two months that 
revealed an effort lasting decades by the Philadelphia archdiocese to play down 
accusations of child sexual abuse and avoid scandal. 
 
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