POLAND
U.S. Catholic
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service
OXFORD, England (CNS) — A Polish priest testified that a man reported to him that he was sexually abused by the former rector of a parish in Kolobrzeg, Poland.
The testimony Jan. 6 from the unnamed priest is believed to be the first by one cleric against another accused of sexual abuse in Poland. The trial comes amid growing complaints about the church’s lack of response to abuse allegations against clergy.
The trial was scheduled to continue Jan. 12.
“The victim told me about his trauma,” the priest told the Regional Court in Koszalin in the trial of Father Zbigniew Ryckiewicz, former pastor of St. Wojciech Parish in Kolobrzeg, who is charged with abusing two juvenile male altar servers from 1998 to 2001.
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