POLAND/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The News
30.10.2013
A deacon in the Dominican Republic has claimed he procured boys for a Polish archbishop recently suspended from his position as the Vatican’s representative in the country.
“This is a man who is sexually ill – this is about much more than just molesting children,” Deacon Francisco Xavier Reyes has told the TVP Polish public broadcaster about the charges facing Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski.
“It was anything that would satisfy his sexual appetite,” the deacon, who is himself facing charges of molesting minors, added.
“He told me that there was a particular type of sexual preference that he favoured.”
Deacon Francisco Xavier Reyes revealed that he had had a sexual relationship with the archbishop.
“He kept me [financially] although he was not lavish. Once he gave me 40,000 pesos, as I had a problem at home.”
Charges
It has emerged that the charges facing the archbishop include accusations even more serious than first reported when the case broke in the media in September.
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