Lawyers Want Judge in Catholic Church Scandal Case to Recuse Herself Because of Comments on Philly.com

And here we were thinking that no one cared about the comments on Philly.com. Defense attorneys in the case against Monsignor William J. Lynn want Judge M. Teresa Sarmina to step down from the case. Monsignor Lynn is alleged to have enabled priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to molest children. The lawyers want Judge Sarmina to recuse herself because she said that anyone who doubted that there was widespread child abuse in the Catholic church was living on another planet. When pleading their case, the defense attorneys cited a Philly.com article that received more than two dozen critical comments. [Philebrity]