Paedophile priest found free in Switzerland after conviction in Belgium

BELGIUM
The Brussels Times

June 15, 2020

By Gabriela Galindo

A Swiss priest found guilty of abusing a minor in Belgium has been arrested in Switzerland, where he was living free despite being sentenced to prison in 2017.

The Brussels Court of Appeal sentenced Frédéric Abbet to three years’ imprisonment after finding him guilty of sexually abusing a nine-year-old boy in a Brussels boarding school between 2010 and 2011.

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