I am thrilled with the outcome of the Lynch-Linder trial. Indeed, justice
has been served.
Mr. Lynch acknowledged that it was wrong for him to seek revenge against the
cleric who had molested him as a child.
The abusive priest did not get away with anything. Pleading the Fifth when
testifying to the violent ordeal that he endured from his former victim, Lindner
may have hid his culpability from the public, but in doing so he shielded the
criminal whom he had violated years before.
The jury engaged in a winning deliberation, one in which they recognized the
terrible assualt by the defendant, yet because of his prior shameful actions, the
retired priest was unable to testify for himself, thus voiding his testimony,
depriving the jury of any facts to impugn the victim-turned-perpetrator.
Now, if only California legislators would extend the statute of limitations
for prosecuting child abuse. . .