DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/VATICAN CITY
CNN
From Diulka Perez, For CNN
updated 2:26 PM EDT, Wed September 4, 2013
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (CNN) — The pope has pulled out the Vatican’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic, a move a local church representative says is linked to child abuse allegations.
The Vatican confirmed Wednesday that Jozef Wesolowski was removed from his post and that an investigation is under way, but did not say what allegations were made.
Wesolowski had been an apostolic nuncio, the Vatican’s official representative in the Dominican Republic.
But he was recalled last month after an internal church report connected him with child abuse and pedophilia, according to Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, the rector of a Catholic university and spokesman for the church in the country.
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