A change in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office's position on whether high-level officials in the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia could be successfully prosecuted is not an argument that can help the appeal of the first Catholic Church official in the country to be convicted of endangering the welfare of children abused by other priests, prosecutors argued in court papers.
The prosecutors who wrote the report for the first investigating grand jury that looked into the sexual abuse committed by priests and how the archdiocese hierarchy handled that abuse concluded that high-level archdiocesan officials could not be successfully prosecuted. But the second investigating grand jury concluded otherwise, which ultimately led to Monsignor William J. Lynn's felony conviction of endangering the welfare of children in June 2012.
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