Police officers escort Father Wojciech G (second left) to the office of the state prosecutor in Warsaw yesterday.
Reuters/Warsaw
Polish prosecutors have charged a Catholic priest with four counts of sex abuse against children in his native Poland and in the Dominican Republic, where he was working in a rural parish, the prosecutor’s office said yesterday.
The priest worked in the Dominican Republic until May.
He left the parish and was suspended by his religious order after local residents accused him of molesting altar boys, church officials said.
“Two of the charges concern acts that took place in the Dominican Republic, to the harm of citizens of the Dominican Republic, and two concern acts that took place in Poland and concern Polish citizens,” the prosecutor’s spokesman, Przemyslaw Nowak, told a news conference.
Another Polish cleric working in the Dominican Republic, Vatican nuncio (ambassador) Archbishop Josef Wesolowski, was recalled last September and is being investigated there on child sexual abuse charges.
His whereabouts are not known.