Vatican arrests former archbishop over paedophilia charges

VATICAN CITY
RTE News

The Vatican has said it has arrested a former archbishop who is accused of paying for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic.

Jozef Wesolowski, originally from Poland, is under house arrest inside the city state, the Vatican said in a statement.

He was defrocked by a Vatican tribunal earlier this year and is awaiting trial on criminal charges.

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