DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Dominican Today
Juncalito, Dominican Republic.- Residents in the highland community of Juncalito, central Santiago province, are happy with the decision by the authorities in Warsaw, Poland, to indict the priest Wojciech Gil (Padre) Alberto of several crimes, including for the alleged sexual abuse of six boys.
“Finally it seems justice will be served,” said Pedro Tomas Espinal, who worked in Juncalito’s church of when Gil was the priest in the town near Jánico.
Espinal, who accompanied Gil twice to Poland, said everyone in Juncalito was shocked and outraged when the scandal erupted.
“The one who does it has to pay and we’re glad that Poland wants to make justice to the priest for sex abuse against minors committed here and in his country,” he said quoted by listin.com.do.
He revealed that before Gil arrived the parish had only eight altar boys, but then rose to 177, all teenagers at masses had to dress formally and that the priest would give them the garments. “While he was in the parish we never realized his actions because he was very reserved, it seems he did his thing with great discretion.”
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