Former Vatican Ambassador Is Facing Sexual Abuse Trial

[Jefferson23]

September 23, 2014

The Vatican said on Tuesday that it had placed under house arrest and opened criminal proceedings against one of its former ambassadors, Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, who has been accused of sexually abusing boys he met on the street while serving in the Dominican Republic.

It is the first time the Vatican will hold a criminal trial on charges of child sexual abuse, and it comes as Pope Francis has been trying to set a new tone of rigorous attention in the long-running abuse scandal.

The case has received widespread attention in the Dominican Republic and in Mr. Wesolowski’s native Poland, and officials in both nations have sought to have him tried in their courts.



Mr. Wesolowski is being held “in a location within the Vatican City State,” according to a statement issued by the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman. He added that Mr. Wesolowski had presented documentation attesting to a medical condition, and was confined to house arrest after a preliminary hearing on Tuesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/world/europe/former-vatican-ambassador-faces-child-sex-abuse-trial.html?_r=0


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[Bluenorthwest]

1. Is this the same Vatican with that anti gay Francis guy and his coven of peers who claim moral

authority to judge others, or is this another Vatican? Because if it is the same Vatican, they have some kind of nerve.

[Jefferson23]

2. Pope Francis, yes. I know nothing about the Vatican never mind how they will hold a

criminal trial. They claim they have not done so in the past due to the jury pool being too small to draw from.
I don't know if Wesolowski is entitled to an attorney under these laws, can't find
one claiming to represent him.

But yea, the same man who is allegedly going to clean up sexual abuse crimes and be kind(er) to gays...that's him.