Vatican City, 24 September 2014 (VIS) –
The director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi,
S.J., gave the following declaration yesterday afternoon:
“Today the promoter of Justice of the
Vatican City State Court of First Instance summoned the ex-nuncio
Jozef Wesolowski, in relation to whom a criminal investigation has
been initiated. The former prelate – previously convicted in the
first instance by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and
reduced to lay status following a canonical penal administrative
trial – has been informed of the indictment of the proceedings
against him for serious acts of abuse against minors carried out in
the Dominican Republic. The seriousness of the allegations has
prompted the investigating office to impose restrictive measures
that, in view of the state of health of the accused, attested to by
medical documentation, consists of house arrest with its related
limitations, in a location within Vatican City State.
“The initiative taken by the Vatican
legal authorities is consistent with the wish expressed by the Pope
that such a serious and delicate case be addressed without delay,
with the just and necessary rigour, with the full assumption of
responsibility on the part of the institutions governed by the Holy
See”.
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