ITALY
The Local
A priest from the southern Italian city of Salerno is facing trial for allegedly forcing a man in his early twenties to have sex in exchange for giving him a job.
The priest invited the man to stay at his home when he moved to the city from the town of Valle dell’Urno, Il Mattino reported.
In exchange for the promise of work as a “driver or handyman”, the man claims the priest forced him to have sex.
The allegations date back before 2011, the year the priest was moved from the church.
Local magistrates have reportedly ordered the priest to stand trial.
In early April, a priest from Feltre, a hillside town in the northern Italian province of Belluno, was said to be under investigation for allegedly paying a Moroccan man for sex, and with cash from the local convent.
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