In this June 22, 2012 file photo, Monsignor William Lynn walks to the Criminal Justice Center before a scheduled verdict reading, in Philadelphia. Lynn, the Roman Catholic monsignor at the center of a landmark case involving the sexual abuse of children by priests, will be sentenced on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. He faces 3-1/2 to seven years in prison for his felony child endangerment conviction.
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published Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
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PHILADELPHIA — The first U.S. church official convicted of covering up sex-abuse claims against Roman Catholic priests was sentenced Tuesday to three to six years in prison by a judge who said he "enabled monsters in clerical garb ... to destroy the souls of children."
