VATICAN CITY
ABC News (Australia)
A former papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic will be tried for paedophilia next month in the first case of its kind to be brought before a Vatican court.
The Vatican announced on Monday, the first hearing in the trial of Jozef Wesolowski had been scheduled for July 11 this year.
The Polish cleric is accused of possession of child pornography in Rome in 2013-14 and the sexual abuse of minors during his 2008-13 spell as the church’s representative in the Dominican Republic.
The Vatican said allegations of crimes committed in the Dominican Republic were based on an investigation by police there.
The others were based on a Vatican investigation that found child pornography on his computer after he was arrested last September.
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