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
rizlaplus
(159 posts)Did he fall or was he pushed!
rpannier
(24,304 posts)I know he had been really sick
47of74
(18,470 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)I just wish he had died in a Dominican Republican prison.
If he hadn't been protected by the Vatican he would have:
I wish there was a hell so Wesolowski and everyone who protects predators could rot in it.
sarge43
(28,939 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Shame?
I doubt it.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)put him on trial. They knew it would never happen.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)guilty, justice denied is not justice served. I will not mourn his death, nor condone his life.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)As in Coverup Law?