On February 10, 2011, Philadelphia's district attorney R. Seth Williams announced that Monsignor William J. Lynn, Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua's Vicar for Clergy 1992-2004, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of criminal conspiracy. The charges related to Msgr. Lynn’s supervision of Rev. Edward V. Avery and Rev. James J. Brennan, whom Lynn kept in ministry despite previous allegations that they had molested children.