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Vatican City’s First–Ever Arrest: Puts Ex-Dominican Ambassador Josef Wesolowski Under House Custody Over Pedophilia Charges
By Esther Tanquintic-Misa | September 24, 2014
Vatican has done the unimaginable and impossible on Tuesday when it placed under house custody former Dominican Ambassador Josef Wesolowski over pedophilia charges. It was the
In a statement, the Vatican said Wesolowski was placed under house arrest pending a criminal trial. Pope Francis, according to Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi, had personally instructed the case of Polish former archbishop be expedited.
Wesolowski was convicted of sex abuse by a church tribunal in June and defrocked pending further criminal proceedings.
It was “the result of the Pope’s express wish for a case this serious and sensitive to be dealt with without delay, with the necessary scrupulousness and full undertaking of responsibility on the part of the institutions which head up the Holy See,” Lombardi said.
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