POLAND
The Huffington Post UK
The Huffington Post UK | By Jessica Elgot Posted: 20/09/2012
A Polish catholic priest has been forced to defend himself after pictures emerged of children licking cream off his legs.
The photos show an “initiation ceremony” at the Salesians’ high school in Lubin, southern Poland -which Father Marcin Kozyra, who is also the school’s principal, said was entirely innocent, and such ceremonies for first year pupils had taken place for years.
In the pictures, 13 year-old pupils, both girls and boys, are seen licking whipped cream off a priest’s bare knees as well crawling up a flight of stairs.
Father Kozyra said he saw nothing wrong in his actions or the pictures being posted on the school’s website.
Parents of some pupils have come out in support of the priest in a letter, where they claimed that the whipped cream was actually shaving foam and nobody was forced to eat it.
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