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By Hada Messia and Laura Smith-Spark CNN
POSTED: 08:54 AM CDT Jun 27, 2014
ROME (CNN) –
A former Vatican ambassador to the Dominican Republic has been found guilty of sexual abuse of minors by a Vatican tribunal, the Vatican said in a statement Friday.
Jozef Wesolowski was accused of sexual abuse of minors while serving in the Caribbean nation, the statement said.
The tribunal sentenced him to “dismissal from the clerical order,” it said. He has the right to appeal within two months.
Once the canonical process has been concluded, he will then be tried by the Vatican’s penal courts, according to the statement.
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