POLAND
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A Polish priest was detained on Monday near Krakow in connection with an investigation concerning alleged child abuse in the Dominican Republic.
Przemyslaw Nowak, spokesman for the District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, confirmed the news on Monday morning.
Father Wojciech G. (full name withheld under Polish privacy laws) has been under investigation by the Polish prosecutor’s office since late September.
The Dominican Republic’s attorney general transferred its case files, containing about 650 documents, to Poland last autumn, and it is understood that if charges are brought, the cleric will be tried in Poland.
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