POLAND/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Dominican Today
Santo Domingo.- Polish priest Wojciech Gil (Padre Alberto) was arrested in his country Monday in connection with charges of sexually abusing several boys in a town of the Dominican Republic, outlet thenews.pl reports.
Quoting Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Przemyslaw Nowak, who “confirmed the news on Monday morning,”
News.pl said the pries, whose full name it withheld the under Polish privacy laws, has been under investigation by the Polish authorities since late September.
“The Dominican Republic’s attorney general transferred its case files, containing about 650 documents, to Poland last autumn, and it is understood that if charges are brought, the cleric will be tried in Poland,” the outlet said.
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