SOUTH AFRICA
The New Age
A South African regional court Tuesday cleared the extradition of a German Catholic priest wanted in his home country for the sexual abuse of children, a court official said.
After six years of court cases, Georg Kerkhoff could finally be sent home to face charges if the South African justice minister approves the judicial decision, according to a court clerk.
The judge in the town of Brits, northwest of Johannesburg, ordered Tuesday that Kerkhoff, aged in his fifties, be detained “pending the decision of the minister.
The decision should made within 72 hours.”
He had been free on bail since last September.
Originally from Aachen in West Germany, Kerkhoff was sought for alleged pedophilia.
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