Polish priest wanted over Dominican child sex-abuse

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
BBC

Prosecutors in Dominican Republic have asked their attorney-general to extradite a Polish Roman Catholic priest on child-abuse charges involving thousands of pornographic images.

The priest, Rev Wojciech Gil, is accused of abusing seven children.

Authorities say they also found more than 80,000 inappropriate images and videos of children on his computer.

In phone calls to reporters in the Dominican Republic, he has denied the accusations, saying he has been framed.

The priest was in Poland on holiday when the allegations first surfaced earlier this year and has not returned to the mountain town of Juncalito where he led a parish for eight years.

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