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Vatican envoy faces child abuse trial Vatican ex-envoy Wesolowski faces child sex abuse trial
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Vatican to put Jozef Wesolowski, ex-envoy to Dominican Republic, on trial on child sex abuse charges The Vatican is to put its former envoy to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, on trial on child sex abuse and child pornography charges.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. Pope Francis has also accepted the resignations of a US archbishop and his deputy, accused in Minnesota of having ignored a priest's child abuse.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. Jozef Wesolowski is accused of having sexually abused children in the Dominican Republic in 2008-2013. He is under house arrest in the Vatican.
The trial is to begin on 11 July.
He is also charged with possession of child pornography, dating from his return to Rome in 2013.
Wesolowski, 66, was recalled from the Dominican Republic in 2013, after allegations surfaced accusing him of abusing Dominican boys.
He had spent five years in the Caribbean country as the papal envoy.
He was defrocked in June last year after he was found guilty by a Church tribunal. He will now be tried by a Vatican criminal court.