Vatican orders former archbishop to stand trial for sex abuse

VATICAN CITY
Reuters

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A Vatican prosecutor on Monday ordered a former Roman Catholic archbishop accused of paying for sex with children when he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic and of possessing child pornographic material to stand trial.

Jozef Wesolowski, a Pole who had been defrocked, last year became the first person to be arrested inside the Vatican on paedophilia charges.

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