Polish prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Roman Catholic priest suspected of sex offences against children in Poland and in the Dominican Republic. The 36-year-old Polish priest, who was arrested on Monday, is identified only as Wojciech G for legal reasons. He faces up to 12 years behind bars if convicted.
He has been accused of alleged sexual relations with minors under the age of 15 - two in Poland and two in the Dominican Republic where he served in the central city of Santiago, Dariusz Nowak, a spokesman for prosecutors in Warsaw, told reporters. Wojciech G, who has flatly denied any wrongdoing, is also alleged to have possessed child pornography. In an October 2013 interview with Polish media, he suggested he had been set up by drug gangs in the Dominican Republic.
Polish prosecutors began independent investigations in September into the allegations against him and also 65-year-old Polish archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, who served as a papal envoy in the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo. Authorities there also suspect Wesolowski of having sex with boys. Pope Francis suspended him from his duties as papal nuncio and summoned him to the Vatican in August last year.
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