Reflection on Lynch-Lindner Verdict

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. . .