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  Bishop Reports Priest to Police for Suspected Child Abuse

Dutch News
April 16, 2010

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/04/bishop_reports_priest_to_polic.php

The bishop of Rotterdam Ad van Luyn has made a formal complaint to the police about a priest working in Leidschendam and Voorburg who may have been involved in sexually abusing children while working in Sri Lanka.

The bishop told the Telegraaf he had suspended the priest and brought in the police after completing a preliminary investigation himself.

Van Luyn has been a central figure in the unfolding scandal about child abuse within the Catholic church.

In March he said he had dealt with several abusive priests in the 1970s while he was head of the Salesian order but declined to say what action he had taken.

 
 

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