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August 31, 2015

Highest-Ranking Vatican Official to Be Charged with Sex Abuse Dies 
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Jozef Wesolowski, the former Vatican ambassador to the Dominican
Republic, has died while awaiting trial for sexually abusing boys.
Wesolowski was accused of abusing and taking pornographic photos of poor
shoeshine boys in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo. He would have
been the first high-level cleric to stand trial before a Vatican
tribunal on charges of child sexual abuse. He was found dead in his
Vatican home Friday of what officials say appear to be natural causes.
He was 67.

 

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