POLAND
The News
A Polish priest was detained on Monday in connection with allegations of paedophilia as the Roman Catholic Church in Poland struggles to cope with a rash of child abuse cases.
Father Grzegorz K. (full name withheld under Polish privacy laws) is alleged to have had sexual intercourse with a minor and to have shown the child pornographic material, among other crimes.
The allegations follow Polish archbishop Jozef Wesolowski being recalled last year to Rome amid claims he sexually abused children in the Dominican Republic and a 36-year-old priest, Wojciech G, is also accused of molesting boys while serving as a parish priest on the Caribbean island.
According to Renata Mazur, spokesperson of the District Prosecutor’s Office of Warsaw-Praga, the latest allegations refer to crimes carried out by Father Grzegorz regularly between 1 January 2000 and 7 January 2003.
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