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Vatican ex-envoy Wesolowski faces child sex abuse trial | |
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The Vatican is to put its former envoy to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, on trial on child sex abuse and child pornography charges. | |
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. | |
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. |