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muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 05:56 AM Aug 2015

Vatican ex-envoy Wesolowski dies ahead of abuse trial

Source: BBC

Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and Vatican envoy to the Dominican Republic, has died before he could be tried for child sex offences.
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He was accused of paying for sex with children in the Dominican Republic.

Wesolowski, 66, would have been the first high-ranking church official to be tried on paedophile charges. His case was seen as a test of the Vatican's pledge to stamp out abuse.
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Wesolowski was reportedly found dead early on Friday morning. A Vatican statement (in Italian) said preliminary indications were that he had died of "natural causes".


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34083390

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Vatican ex-envoy Wesolowski dies ahead of abuse trial (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Aug 2015 OP
People will ask: rizlaplus Aug 2015 #1
I think he had cancer rpannier Aug 2015 #2
Looks like an autopsy is forthcoming 47of74 Aug 2015 #6
Good. beam me up scottie Aug 2015 #3
Good career move. n/t sarge43 Aug 2015 #4
that he had died of "natural causes". AlbertCat Aug 2015 #5
They knew he was sick, that's why they delayed then went through the big show of saying they would Bluenorthwest Aug 2015 #7
Rule of Law, innocent until proven saidsimplesimon Aug 2015 #8
Rule of Law? muriel_volestrangler Aug 2015 #9

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
3. Good.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 07:27 AM
Aug 2015

I just wish he had died in a Dominican Republican prison.

If he hadn't been protected by the Vatican he would have:

Wesolowski had already been convicted over abuse by a church tribunal and defrocked as archbishop.



I wish there was a hell so Wesolowski and everyone who protects predators could rot in it.
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
7. They knew he was sick, that's why they delayed then went through the big show of saying they would
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 10:58 AM
Aug 2015

put him on trial. They knew it would never happen.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
8. Rule of Law, innocent until proven
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 04:49 PM
Aug 2015

guilty, justice denied is not justice served. I will not mourn his death, nor condone his life.

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