DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/VATICAN CITY
The Independent (United Kingdom)
Missing Vatican ambassador recalled following child abuse accusations in Dominican Republic
ADAM WITHNALL THURSDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2013
A Catholic priest has been relieved of his role as ambassador for the Vatican to the Dominican Republic after local news reports accused him of paedophilia.
Archbishop Josef Wesolowski had been the nuncio, an envoy representing the interests of the church leadership, in the capital of Santo Domingo for nearly six years.
That was until Dominican television network NCDN, quoting the director of a community group called Pedro Espinal, ran a story saying Archbishop Wesolowski and a fellow Polish priest took several altar boys back to his beach house and slept in the same room as them.
Both prosecutors in the country and Vatican officials have begun separate investigations into the conduct of Archbishop Wesolowski – but neither knows where he is now.
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