Talk:Sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Removed from Archdiocese page

As per talk on that I page, I have removed from it;

In 1978, Father Edward Avery was accused of abuse of a sixteen year-old boy. In 2011, he was named in a grand jury indictment along with another Father Charles Englehardt and Bernard Shero, a lay teacher, of sodomizing a ten year-old boy in 1998 in Saint Jerome Parish. Avery was laicized in 2006 as a result of his troubles. A 1994 internal memorandum listed 35 priests who were suspected or accused of abusing children. Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua ordered all copies of the document destroyed, but one was found in a archdiocese safe in 2006. Of those mentioned, only one, Monsignor Richard T. Powers who was still at that time active in the ministry. It is not clear if any action was taken against the monsignor.

Father William Ayres was accused in 2011 of abusing a minor in the late 1990s while at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. He is also accused of a second case of abuse at about the same time at Incarnation of Our Lord Parish.

In 2006, Father James J Brennan was accused of sexual abuse in 1998. In 2011 he was charged by a Philadelphia grand jury with the rape of fourteen-year-old boy in 1986. The victim later attempted suicide. Father Brennan's case has been sent to the Vatican to be considered for laicization.

On February 10, 2011, a grand jury accused the Archdiocese of Philadelphia of failing to stop the sexual abuse of children. A church official, Monsignor William Lynn, was charged with endangering the welfare of children while two other priests, Edward Avery and Charles Englehardt were charged with rape and indecent assault of a minor.

Paul, in Saudi (talk) 03:49, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

I've had to remove a list of names from the above - the other names seem to relate to charges, but the list that was in the comment before only related to "credible allegations", without any evidence of formal legal proceedings. This suggested BLP problems, especially given the source, so I had to refactor accordingly. My apologies for any problems this may cause. - Bilby (talk) 08:48, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Do what you think is best. From my Saudi Listening Post, my understanding of the details of all this is probably a bit garbled. The stuff I wrote I mostly used to try to set out the facts in some sort of chrono order. Paul, in Saudi (talk) 09:40, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Please review regarding Msgr. Lynn

I find: "Msgr. William Lynn, the pastor of St. Joseph Church in Downingtown, was arrested in February, 2012, indicted in mid-March and, more than a week after the indictment, put on administrative leave by the Archbishop Rigali."

Rigali has been cardinal since 2003, thus would be referred to as Cardinal even if he was still the Archbishop (of Philadelphia). But Rigali retired last year, and Most Rev. Charles Chaput, OFM Cap, was named to succeed him. Please check the dates regarding Msgr. Lynn. Would that be 2011, not 2012?

Lynn back in jail

I forget how to format footnotes, but here's info on today's AP story:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PRIEST_ABUSE_APPEAL?SITE=AP
Apr 30, 11:46 AM EDT
MONSIGNOR HEADED BACK TO PRISON ON CHILD ENDANGERMENT CHARGE
BY MARYCLAIRE DALE 
ASSOCIATED PRESS

"(Lynn) ultimately could be exonerated, and he'll have done his whole sentence. There are enough unusual issues in this case," defense lawyer Alan Tauber, one of Lynn's trial lawyers, said as Lynn was handcuffed and taken into custody.

-173.16.85.205 (talk) 19:05, 30 April 2015 (UTC)