PA - Lynn released; abuse victims respond

For immediate release: Monday December 30, 2013

Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790[email protected])


We are grateful that Msgr. Lynn spent months locked up and hope he will again. We are disappointed that he's been freed and we hope he will not flee the country or take any further steps now to help child molesting clerics in any way.

Msgr. Lynn's callousness, recklessness and deceit caused kids to be hurt and predators to walk free. We hope that Pennsylvania's highest court will re-instate his conviction.

No matter how this case is ultimately resolved, we hope that every single person who saw, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes and cover ups in the Philadelphia area will find the courage and strength - like Billy Doe did - to speak up, call police, prosecutors, lawyers, journalists, therapists or support groups and share what they know or suspect so that kids might be protected, wrongdoing might be deterred and truth might be disclosed. But do something. Staying silent just helps those who commit and conceal child sex crimes.

Contact - David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, [email protected]), Barbara Dorris (314-862-7688 home, 314-503-0003 cell, [email protected]), Barbara Blaine (312-399-4747,[email protected])


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