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14 April 2017

Fewer priest accusers to testify at ex-official's retrial

" A former church official in Philadelphia must decide this week whether to be retried on child endangerment charges or seek further appeals.
Prosecutors are seeking to retry Monsignor William Lynn although he has served nearly three years of a three- to six-year sentence in a child endangerment case. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ultimately threw out his 2012 conviction over weeks of testimony from 23 priest abuse victims not directly tied to his case.

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