FRANCE
International Business Times

By Umberto Bacchi
April 11, 2014

French police have arrested a fundamentalist priest who allegedly raped and tortured three women during exorcism rituals.

The 40-year-old allegedly abused the women in 2010, when he was head of the private religious school Notre-Dame-de-la Sablonniere in Goussonville, a village of 600 people 50km west of Paris.

His victims were teachers at the institute run by the Society of St. Pius X, a Catholic order blackballed by the Vatican.

The priest, who has not been named, used the spiritual influence he had on the women to abuse them, Le Parisien newspaper reported.