POLAND
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A Polish man who is trying to reach a settlement with the Church over the sexual abuse he suffered as a child has written to Pope Francis of his ‘lost innocence.’
The victim described his letter as “a cry for all children who have been wronged in Poland.”
Marcin K. (full name withheld under Polish privacy laws) claims he was abused by Father Zbigniew R. from 2000-2001 in Kolobrzeg, northern Poland.
The priest was sentenced to two years imprisonment in 2012, but the clergyman claimed that he was suffering health problems and he did not serve the time.
Marcin K. has now become the first person in Poland to seek compensation, arguing that the Church knew about what was occurring, but that it did not react.
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