RUSSIA
The Moscow Times
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber
Sep. 22 2014
A Russian Orthodox priest suspected of having committed acts of pedophilia at a children’s summer camp last year has been detained in Israel, Interfax reported Monday.
Gleb Grozovsky, a priest from St. Petersburg, was placed on an international wanted list at Russia’s request based on allegations of having sexually assaulted two girls, aged 9 and 12, at a religious-themed youth camp on the Greek island of Kos in 2013. He is also suspected of having committed “a range of similar crimes in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region” between 2011 and 2013, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee.
Grozovsky left Russia for Israel on a business trip in the fall of 2013 before the Russian Investigative Committee launched a criminal case against him. His diocese in the Leningrad region terminated the mission in November of that year, but the priest failed to return to Russia.
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