Charges filed against Roman Catholic official for failure to protect children…
February 11, 2011: Philadelphia’s district attorney has taken a step no prosecutor in the U.S. had taken before: filing criminal charges against a high-ranking Roman Catholic official for allegedly failing to protect children.
District Attorney Seth Williams filed charges against three priests, a parochial school teacher and Monsignor William Lynn, who as secretary of the clergy was one of the top officials in the Philadelphia Archdiocese from 1992 to 2004. The three priests and the teacher were charged with raping boys. Lynn, 60, was accused not of molesting children but of endangering them. A damning grand jury report said at least two boys were sexually assaulted because he put two known pedophiles in posts where they had contact with youngsters. Question: Who are you allowing access to your children. Full FBI background check need to be conducted prior to allowing employees or volunteers to work with children. How often are you conducting background checks? Do you have a Child Protection Policy and is it being enforced? Do you have a Nursery, Preschool & Children’s Ministry Policy Manual? Is training being conducted? How often and what type of training is being conducted? Are employees and volunteers required to attend Child Abuse/Neglect & Reporting Training annually?